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(No. 12)
Country near Kununurra, 1998
(No. 13)
Country near Warmun
(No. 14)
Storm Near Kununurra, Beginning of the Wet Season
At the beginning of the wet season in the northern areas of Australia, clouds build up, the day turns very dark and heavy lighning storms occur in the afternoon.
(No. 16)
Termite Country South of Kununurra
In many areas of northern Australia, the termites make nests of hardened earth which can be small spikes like stalagmites in caves, or large mounds many times
larger than a man.
(No. 18)
Termite Mound South of Kununurra, 1997
A termite mound can take many strange shapes ...
(No. 19)
Aerial View of the Bungle Bungles, 1998
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!
(No. 20)
Cliffs of the Bungle Bungles
The sheer cliffs of the Bungle Bungles are formed from rather soft limestone. The hills have not weathered away to the level of the surrounding countryside due to a
cap of slightly-harder rock.
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