{{Short description|Mountain in Australia}} {{use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{for|the cattle station formerly known as Mount Conner|Curtin Springs}} {{use Australian English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Conner | image = Mt_Conner,_seen_from_the_road_to_Uluru.jpg | image_caption = Mount Conner seen from the road to Uluru / Ayers Rock | elevation_m = 859 | elevation_ref = {{AHD}} | prominence = | listing = | location = Petermann, Northern Territory,<ref name="NT-placenames"/> Australia | range = | coordinates = {{coord|25.492807|S|131.897828|E|region:AU_type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<ref name="NT-placenames">{{cite web |title=Place Names Register Extract for "Mount Conner" |url=https://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=15383 |website=NT Place Names Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |accessdate=14 June 2019}}</ref> | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = | etymology = M. L. Conner | map = Australia Northern Territory | map_caption = Location in the Northern Territory }} thumb|Landscape with Mount Conner
'''Mount Conner'''{{snd}}also known as '''Artilla''' (or '''Atila'''), or tongue-in-cheek as '''Fooluru''' (or '''Fuluru'''){{snd}}is a mesa located in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory of Australia.
==Location and description== Mount Conner is located {{convert|75|km|mi|0}} southeast of Lake Amadeus, in the locality of Petermann.<ref name="NT-placenames"/> It lies within the Curtin Springs cattle station in Pitjantjatjara country,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1301&startRow=13|title=Central Australia, 1940|work=SA Memory|date=29 October 2009|accessdate=19 September 2015|publisher=State Library of South Australia}}</ref> close to the site of the Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) Dreaming.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/seven-sisters-dreaming/|title=Seven Sisters Dreaming|date=24 March 2014|accessdate=19 September 2015}}</ref>
Its height reaches {{convert|859|m|ft|0}} above sea level and {{convert|300|m|ft|0}} above ground level.<ref name="EB2011">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/133031/Mount-Conner |title=Mount Conner |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |year=2011}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="NT-placenames"/>
It is also known by locals as "Fool-uru" or "Fuluru", owing to tourists sometimes confusing it with Uluru.<ref>{{cite web | last=Patowary | first=Kaushik | title=Mount Conner: The Rock That Fools You | website=Amusing Planet | date=13 June 2016 | url=https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/06/mount-conner-rock-that-fools-you.html | access-date=9 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Junker |first=Ute |date=2015-03-04 |title='Fool-uru': The rock tourists think is Uluru |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/australia/66934578/fool-uru-the-rock-tourists-think-is-uluru |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Porter |first=David |date=15 Feb 1986 |title=Forgotten hero's desert death may remain a mystery |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |pages=15}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="YoungOthers2002a">Young, DN, N Duncan, A Camacho, PA Ferenczi, and TLA Madigan (2002a) ''Ayers Rock, SG 52-8 map, 1:250 000 Geological Series (Second Edition), Northern Territory Geological Survey.'' scale 1:250 000, Darwin, Northern Territory Geological Survey, Australia.</ref><ref name="YoungOthers2002b">Young, DN, N Duncan, A Camacho, PA Ferenczi, and TLA Madigan (2002b) ''Ayers Rock, SG 52-8 Explanatory Text, 1:250 000 Geological Series (Second Edition).'' scale 1:250 000, Darwin, Northern Territory Geological Survey, Australia.</ref><ref name="Edgoose2012a">Edgoose, CJ (2012) ''The Amadeus Basin, central Australia.'' Episodes. 35(1):257-263.</ref>
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.<ref name="Twidale2007a">Twidale, C.R. (2007) ''Ancient Australian Landscapes.'' Rosenberg Publishing, Kenthurst, New South Wales. 144 pp.</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Mountains}}
*List of mountains of the Northern Territory
==References== {{reflist|30em}} {{Commons}} {{stack|}}
===Additional sources=== *{{cite map |publisher=Northern Territory Geological Survey |title=Ayers Rock Geology Map |url= |format= |edition=1st |year=1967 |cartography= |scale=1:250,000 |series=Sheet SG52-8}} *{{cite map |publisher=Northern Territory Geological Survey |title=Ayers Rock Geology Map |url= |format= |edition=2nd |year=2002 |cartography= |scale=1:250,000 |series=Sheet SG52-8}} *{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kdJNcKi3SakC&dq=0521841216 |title=The Geology of Australia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |first=David |last=Johnson |year=2004 |isbn=0-521-84121-6}}
==Further reading== *{{cite book |url=https://geoscience.nt.gov.au/gemis/ntgsjspui/handle/1/81571 |title=A Guide to the Geology and Landforms of Central Australia |publisher=Northern Territory Geological Survey |location=Alice Springs |first=R B |last=Thompson |year=1995 |isbn=0-7245-2527-0}}
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