20 km north of Uluru (Ayers Rock). Until the mid-1980s, visiting Uluru involved a certain amount of hardship. There was no accommodation at the site, and the nearest road house was 100 km away. That meant that relatively few people visited the rock (in the decade prior to the Second World War, for example, less than two dozen people climbed to the summit). Nowadays the rock is visited by more than 400,000 tourists each year, and some of them stay at the artificial settlement of Yulara.