{{Infobox_protected_area_of_Australia | name = Mount Augustus National Park
  | iucn_category = III
  | image = Australia_Locator_Map.svg
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  | locator_x = 31
  | locator_y = 95
  | nearest_town_or_city  = Meekatharra
  | coordinates = 
  | area = 92 km²
  | established = 1989
  | visitation_num = 
  | visitation_year = 
  | managing_authorities = Department of Environment and Conservation
  | official_site = [http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,58 Mount Augustus National Park]
}}
'''Mount Augustus National Park''' is located 852 km north of Perth, 490 km by road east of Carnarvon and 390 km northwest of Meekatharra, Western Australia. Mount Augustus itself, the feature around which the national park is based, is known as ''Burringurrah'' to the local Wadjari Aboriginal people.<ref name="naturebase">[http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,58/Itemid,755/ Naturebase] WA Department of Environment and Conservation (accessed 10 April 2007)</ref>

==Mount Augustus==
left|thumb|Mount Augustus
Mount Augustus stands 1105 m above sea level, or approximately 860 m above the surrounding plain, and covers an area of 47.95 km². It has a central ridge which is almost 8 km long. Mount Augustus is widely claimed to be the ''“world's largest monolith”'',<ref name="unsupported-claim2">[http://www.smh.com.au/news/Western-Australia/Mount-Augustus/2005/02/17/1108500208314.html "Mount Augustus - The largest monolith in the world"] at www.smh.com.au (accessed 10 April 2007)</ref> but the claim does not originate from the geological literature, nor appears to be substantiated by any other scholarly research. The claim appears to have arisen out of long standing rivalry with Uluru, another unsubstantiated claimant for the title.

==Geology==
Mount Augustus is composed of conglomerate, a formation known to geologists as the Mount Augustus Sandstone, which overlies older granite near its northern end.<ref name="Muhling85">Muhling P.C. & Brakel A.T. 1985. Geology of the Bangemall Group — The evolution of an intracratonic Proterozoic basin. Western Australia Geological Survey, Bulletin 128, 266 p. [http://geodocs.doir.wa.gov.au/document/documentSearchCriteria.do?from=topNav&cabinetId=1101 GSWA download search]</ref> The Mount Augustus Sandstone was deposited by ancient river systems and is somewhat younger than the 1.65 billion year old granite beneath. The originally horizontal sediments have been folded into an asymmetric anticline by later earth movements. 

==European history==
Gascoyne region, becoming the first recorded European to climb the mountain. Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory (1819-1905). At the time Augustus was on his last expedition, an unsuccessful foray into western Queensland in an attempt to discover the whereabouts of Ludwig Leichhardt.

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|BILD=Mount Augustus by Jan Van Der Hoeven.jpg
|BILDBESCHREIBUNG=Mount Augustus
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|LÄNGENGRAD=116/44/30/E
|REGION-ISO=AU
|TYP=Monolith
|GESTEIN=Marines Sedimentgestein und proterozoischer Sandstein
|ALTER=1 Mrd. Jahre
|ERSTBESTEIGUNG=
|BESONDERHEITEN=
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Der '''Mount Augustus''' ist der größte Monolith der Erdoberfläche, sowie Zentrum und Namensgeber des '''Mount-Augustus-Nationalparks'''. Er befindet sich im westlichen Teil Australiens ungefähr 850&nbsp;km nördlich von Perth und 320&nbsp;km östlich der Stadt Carnarvon. Von Carnavon führt die Straße 195 km östlich nach Gascoyne Junction. Dann biegt man vor »Warri Well« nach Norden ab und erreicht nach 124 km Autofahrt den Mount Augustus. 
Die eingeborenen Wadjari nennen ihn '''Burringurrah'''. Am Berg sind an mehreren Stellen Malereien und Gravuren von ihnen erhalten. Die Vegetation der Umgebung besteht aus hohen Mulgabüschen und anderen Akazien. 

== Geographie ==
Der Mount Augustus ist sieben Kilometer lang und drei Kilometer breit. Der Berg hat eine Höhe von 1106&nbsp;m. Er hat damit ein 2,5 mal so großes Ulu<u>r</u>u (Ayers Rock). Die Gesteinsfarbe variiert zwischen Purpur, Pink, Rot und Orange.

== Geologie und Entstehung ==
Der Fels besteht aus rund einer Milliarde Jahre altem marinem proterozoischem Sandstein. Er ruht auf einem 1,65 Milliarden Jahre alten Granitfelsen.