Inselberg

At some point in my distant childhood, I developed a fascination with Ayers Rock (which was so named in 1873 by an Australian surveyor after then Premier and Chief Secretary of South Australia Sir Henry Ayers although properly known by it’s local aboriginal Pitjantjatjara name of Uluṟu.)

This fascination was further cemented in the late 80s when writer Chris Claremont (longest running writer of The Uncanny X-Men) moved the team to the Outback for several years and introduced an aboriginal mutant named Gateway who could open up wormholes using his bullroarer.Uluru is an inselberg, rising from the flat desert.