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"On Friday, the Murujuga Cultural Landscape in northwest Western Australia was
inscribed on the
UNESCO World Heritage List. We were in Paris to see Murujuga
become Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only our second property
listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.
Murujuga, meaning “hip bone sticking out”, is an ancient rocky landscape rising
out of the Indian Ocean in northwest Australia.
Murujuga is shaped by the Lore and the presence of Ngarda-Ngarli – the
collective term for the Traditional Owner groups of the coastal Pilbara – since
Ngurra Nyujunggamu, when the earth was soft, the beginning of time.
Murujuga includes the Burrup Peninsula, the Dampier Archipelago’s 42 islands
and the listed property covers almost 100,000 hectares of land and sea country.
Across this cultural landscape are between one to two million petroglyphs –
rock art – created by carving designs into rock surfaces. The petroglyphs
record Ngarda Ngarli’s attachment and adaptation to a changing environment
through deep time.
The UNESCO listing recognises the “outstanding universal value” of the Murujuga
Cultural Landscape. This value lies in the traditional system governing it, in
tangible and intangible attributes that attest to 50,000 years of Ngarda-Ngarli
using and caring for the land and seascape.
The Ngarda-Ngarli have campaigned for World Heritage Listing of the Murujuga
Cultural Landscape for more than 20 years."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
