Where is the largest rock in the world?
Mt Augustus, the world’s largest rock, sits in the Golden Outback of Western Australia east of Carnarvon as much as 490 kilometres by road. Mt Augustus is a Western Australia national park. It is two and a half times the size of the more popular Uluru, Mt Augustus covers an area of some 4800 hectares. According to Western Australia’s Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM), Mt Augustus rises to a height of 717 metres above a stony, red sand plain. Its central ridge is almost eight kilometres long. The rock of the mountain is estimated to be 1000 million years old sitting on a granite rock said to be 1650 million years old.
