They run 320 km (200 mi) across the border between Western Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory.
[1] The range was formed about 550 million years ago during the Petermann Orogeny.
[2] The existing geological research has broadly determined that the Petermann Ranges were equivalent in height to the Himalayas.
[1] There are few geology-oriented documentaries that trace Uluru and Kata Tjuta's origins with the Australian Petermann Ranges.
The Time Traveller's Guide To Australia (2012) produced by the ABC TV and Essential Media explores the geological origins of the continent.