Murujuga National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Australia
About Murujuga National Park
The peninsula is an ecologically and archaeologically remarkable area because it contains the world's largest collection of petroglyphs, Aboriginal stone carvings that some scholars say date back well before the last ice age – some of the rock artworks date back to more than 47,000 years ago. The collection is the largest in Australia and the densest in the world with artistic petroglyphs estimated at over a million, several of them containing the thylacine which is now extinct. Unfortunately, the collection has been significantly threatened by various big mining companies such as Woodside Petroleum, due to the large mining activity near the park and the mining town ofKarrathaand it is believed that 7.2 to 24.4% of rock art has been destroyed or damaged and the park remains a controversial
Murujuga National Park Travel Guide Sections
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