Gill Pinnacle (or Gill's Pinnacle) is an inselberg located in the far east of Western Australia, on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. It's part of the Petermann Ranges. It consists of a dome-shaped hill, surrounded by dense mulga; its top is bare rock. The hill has been useful as a

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, because it marks the location of one of the area's most reliable

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rockholes, Gordon's Springs. This is located a few hundred metres to the north of the rock. The area is called (also spelled ' or ') in Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. The first

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people to visit the area were the explorers

Ernest Giles William Ernest Powell Giles (20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led five major expeditions to parts of South Australia and Western Australia. Early life Ernest Giles was born in Bris ...

and W. H. Tietkens, in 1874. They saw the rock from Weld Pass, which is further to the west. Giles named the rock after his brother-in-law, and the waterhole, Gordon's Springs, after his nephew. The closest town to Gill's Pinnacle is

Kaltukatjara Kaltukatjara , also known as Docker River, is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is southwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, west of the Stuart Highway, near the Western Aust ...

, which is about to the east in the Northern Territory.

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