But Parks Australia, which looks after the country’s natural treasures, has asked the tech giant to take down pictures uploaded by users after complaints from the Anangu Aboriginal people, Uluru’s traditional owners.
Tourists were prohibited from traversing the sacred site in late 2019 after the Anangu people said it was being trashed by visitors eroding its surface, dropping rubbish and polluting nearby waterholes.

Tourists climb Uluru before the ban came into place.
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Google is “supportive of this request and is in the process of removing the content,” Parks Australia said in a statement. CNN has contacted Google for comment.
“Parks Australia alerted Google Australia to the user-generated images from the Uluru summit that have been posted on their mapping platform and requested that the content be removed in accordance with the wishes of Anangu, Uluru’s traditional owners, and the national park’s Film and Photography Guidelines,” the statement added.
Tens of thousands of tourists climbed the site, formerly known as Ayers Rock, each year until it was closed in October 2019.
Uluru, a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits 450 kilometers (about 280 miles) west of Alice Springs.