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What is the name of the largest rock in the world?

Not Ayers Rock.

The largest monolithic rock in the world is Mount Augustus (or Burringurrah), located in a remote part of Western Australia. Augustus is two and a half times the size of Uluru (new name Ayers Rock) and one of the least known but most impressive places in the world.

Augustus rises 858 m above the surrounding wasteland, and its crest stretches for more than 8 km.

Augustus is not only larger and taller than Uluru, the rock of this mountain is also much older. That gray sandstone that opens up to our eyes is the remains of the seabed that formed here 1000 million years ago. And the rock hiding under the sandstone is granite 1650 million years old. The most ancient sandstone Uluru is only 400 million years old.

Augustus Rock is a sacred site of the Wajari aborigines. She got her name in honor of a young man named Burringurra, who tried to escape from the rite of passage. The women of the tribe caught up with the fugitive, wounded him with a spear in the leg, and then beat him to death with strong clubs. They say that the shape of the rock resembles a prostrate body: as if a young man is lying on his stomach, bending his leg to his chest, from which a fragment of a spear shaft sticks out.

And finally, the last sting in the tail of the arrogant snobs from the Ayers Rock camp: Mount Augustus is a monolith, that is, a single piece of rock. Uluru is not. Ayers Rock is just the tip of a huge underground mountain system that sticks out of the ground in two more places: Mount Conner (Attila, Attila) and Mount Olga (Kata Tjuta, Kata Tjuta).

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Is the equator the hottest place on earth?

When we talk about different places on earth, whether they are "hot" or "cold", we are talking about climate. In general, the climate is determined by the amount of heat from the sun. It is the heat of the sun that warms the earth, the oceans and the atmosphere. It also draws moisture into the atmosphere and thus causes rain. Solar heat causes differences in atmospheric pressure, which creates winds, and solar heat and winds cause ocean currents.

Therefore, when discussing the climate in a certain place, it is important to keep in mind the effect of solar heat on this area. Due to the fact that the surface of the Earth is round, the largest solar thermal effect is observed at the equator, the smallest - at the poles.

At the equator, the sun's rays hit the earth vertically. Above and below the equator, the rays fall on the earth at an angle, obliquely. This means that these areas above and below the equator, or temperate zones, receive less sunlight than the equatorial zone, or tropical zone. Regions farthest from the equator receive the least amount of heat. When the rays hit the Earth at an angle, they pass through a thicker layer of the atmosphere, and some of the heat is absorbed by the air - this is another reason why other areas receive less heat. All these reasons make the equator the hottest region on Earth.

True, here we are talking about what is called a "solar climate", that is, a climate that depends only on the heat of the sun. However, there are many other factors that determine the so-called "physical climate" - the climate that is actually found on Earth.

The most important of these factors are water, land and altitude. The waters of the oceans and ocean currents, the existence of large expanses of land, the height of the terrain above sea level - all this together creates different climates, regardless of location on Earth. Therefore, at certain times in some place far from the equator, it can be hotter than at the equator itself, although the equatorial region is the hottest on Earth.

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