The Rock, North Arm Cove, NSW, Australia
S 32° 36.920 E 152° 04.810
56H E 413700 N 6390982
"The Rock" service centre, as a replica of Ayres Rock, was a project of Australia's pioneering documentary film-making brothers, Mike and Mal Leyland in 1990.
Waymark Code: WMV4R1
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 02/23/2017
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From the "Great Aussie Bush Camp" website, a bit of history: (
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"In November 1990 the Leyland Brothers opened the Leyland Brothers World theme park near Tea Gardens on the Pacific Highway north of Newcastle, New South Wales. The site included the now iconic 1/40 scale replica of Uluru as well as amusement rides, playground, a roadhouse, museum and a 144 student capacity bush camp.
"Following the collapse of the theme park and the attached movie studio, the site continued as an outdoor recreation centre." (HIGH interest rates (27%), and extra expenses from WET weather during construction crippled the early viability of the Leyland Brothers World Theme Park. - Wikipedia)
"The Great Aussie Bush Camp began life as a theme park and movie studio, started by entrepreneurs and pioneering documentary film makers, Mike and Mal Leyland. Mike and Mal migrated with their parents from England to Australia at age 5 and at age 15, Mike won a trip to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne after entering a cartoon drawing competition. He took with him a 16mm movie camera that his father purchased for him.
"Mike and Mal's future as documentary film makers really began with their careers in the media. Mike became a news cameraman at television station NBN at age 21 and at 18, Mal was working as a cadet at Newcastle's The Sun newspaper.
"Their first regular television series, Ask the Leyland Brothers, aired on Australian television between 1976 and 1980, and again from 1983 to 1984. With few other documentary series of this type, the show often provided Australian viewers with their first look at outback Australia and in that sense, the series was amongst the first authentic documentary films about Australia. The series helped define who we were as Australians at that time, how we thought about ourselves as Australians and hinted at things to come for a burgeoning nation."
From the Northern Territory National Parks website, about Uluru: (
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* Uluru is 348 metres higher than the flat plain that it pokes out from.
* As such, it is higher than the Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
* Uluru has a circumference of 9.4 km if you walked around it.
* It was declared a National Park in 1950.
* The 'Anangu' people own Uluru, and lease it back to Parks Australia.
North Arm Cove is not far from Karuah, which has now been bypassed from the Highway.
Visited multiple times, to buy petrol from United.