<P> Mount Augustus (Burringurrah) is located in the Mount Augustus National Park in Western Australia . The name is also given to the neighbouring pastoral lease, Mount Augustus Station . The local Wadjari people call it Burringurrah, after a Dreamtime figure, a young boy, who was speared and turned into a rock . </P> <P> It is a prominent inselberg that stands 1,106 metres (3,629 ft) above sea level, or approximately 860 metres (2,820 ft) above the surrounding plain, and covers an area of 4,795 hectares (18.51 sq mi). It has a central ridge which is almost 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) long . </P> <P> Mount Augustus is widely claimed in tourist promotional and information literature as the "world's largest monolith", but the claim does not originate from the geological literature, nor is substantiated by any other scholarly research . </P> <P> Mt . Augustus is more than twice the size of Uluru . Unlike Uluru, which is a monolith and, in general, devoid of plant growth, Mt . Augustus is a monocline (an asymmetrical anticline). </P>

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