IS THERE ANY HILL THAT CHANGES ITS COLOR?

We have often heard about the chameleon changing its colour, but any hill doing so seems to be a strange phenomenon. There is a hill in South Australia called Ayres’s rock that changes its color everyday and in every season.


This hill was discovered by an English traveler w.g.goose in 1873.those days Henry ayers was the prime minister of south australia,hence this rock was named after him. It is an oval hill measuring 7 km in length and 2.4 km in width. Its height is 348m. Ordinarily this hill is of red color. The spectacular changes in its color occur during sunrise and sunset. When the sunrays fall on it in the morning, it seems as if the entire hill is on the fire and violet


And deep red flames leap out of it. In the same way, one can see violet shadows appear on his massive red rock when the sun sets. From morning till evening this hill changes color from yellow to orange, then to red and at times to violet or even black. You might think that it is a magic hill or there is some supernatural miracle about it. But the reason is that this rock’s structure is such that it changes its color according to the change in the angle of the sunrays and weather.

The hill is made of sandstone which is also called conglomerate. At the time of sunrise and sunset the sunrays have more of orange or red due to predominance of these colors are also present in the sun’s rays and hence it changes its color accordingly.


The tribal people living in that region believed it to be the abode of the god due to frequent changes in its colors and used to worship it in the caves as its base. They started drawing in the caves. It was difficult to reach this hill in the olden times. But now roads have been built and this hill has become a tourist attraction.

The Australian govt has set up mount Olga national park in an area of 487 sq km near the hill. You can find kangaroos, bandicoots, wallabis as well as rare trees in this park. Thousands of the people visit this park to see these strange animals and trees, as also to have a look at the Ayer’s rock.