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Mount Conneralso known as Artilla (or Atila), or tongue-in-cheek as Fooluru (or Fuluru)is a mesa located in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory of Australia.
Location and description
Mount Conner is located southeast of Lake Amadeus, in the locality of Petermann. close to the site of the Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) Dreaming.
Its height reaches above sea level and above ground level.
Names
Mount Conner was named after M. L. Conner by explorer William Gosse in 1873. Its Aboriginal name is "Artilla" or "Attila", believed to be associated with the "terrible ice-man" story. Former schoolteacher Ellis Bankin is thought to have mistaken Mount Conner for Uluru when he was travelling to the latter in 1936. He died and was buried near Mount Conner after suffering from exhaustion.
Geology
The sides of Mount Conner are blanketed by scree (talus) and its top is blanketed by colluvium. The base of Mount Conner is surrounded by alluvium.
The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of low domes in the Kata Tjuta complex and summit levels of Uluru, is an erosional remnant of a Cretaceous geomorphic surface. It is considered to be a classic example of an inselberg created by erosion of surrounding strata.
See also
- List of mountains of the Northern Territory