Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr
Nordwestaustralien / North West Australia
(Nr. 19) Aerial View of the Bungle Bungles, 1998
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The Bungle Bungles are a very special mesa or hill formation near Kununurra in Western Australia. The horizontal strips in the rock are due to layers of limestone and also layers of other rock where a dark-coloured lichen preferentially grows. The country is a maze of valleys and gorges where creeks have cut through the soft rock. The name is derived from a similar-sounding Aboriginal word which means 'limestone': presumably some early explorer asked 'What call you this there?' and was told 'the rockformation is limestone' in the local language!
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