Editing Uluru (section)

==Name==
The local [[Aṉangu]], the [[Pitjantjatjara]] people, call the landmark ''Uluṟu'' ({{IPA|pjt|ʊlʊɻʊ|lang}}). This word is a [[proper noun]], with no further particular meaning in the [[Pitjantjatjara dialect]], although it is used as a local family name by the senior [[traditional owners]] of Uluru.<ref name="Issacs1980">{{cite book |title=Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History |publisher=Lansdowne Press |location=Sydney |first=Jennifer |last=Issacs |year=1980 |pages=40–41 |isbn=0-7018-1330-X |oclc=6578832}}</ref>

On 19 July 1873, the surveyor [[William Gosse (explorer)|William Gosse]] sighted the landmark and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then [[Chief Secretary of South Australia]], Sir [[Henry Ayers]].<ref name="engovauhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/uluru/culture-history/history/early-european-history.html |title=Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park – Early European history |work=Australian Department of the Environment and Water Resources |access-date=7 October 2008}}</ref>

In 1993, a [[dual naming]] policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name (in the [[Pitjantjatjara language|Pitjantjatjara]], [[Yankunytjatjara language|Yankunytjatjara]] and other local languages) and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed "Ayers Rock / Uluru" and became the first official dual-named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to "Uluru / Ayers Rock" on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs.<ref name="dualnaming">{{cite web |url=https://placenames.nt.gov.au/policies/dualnaming |title=Dual Naming of Features |work=NT.gov.au |access-date=8 October 2017 |archive-date=12 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112103944/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/policies/dualnaming |url-status=dead }}</ref>