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Encyclopedia > Willandra Lakes Region

The Willandra Lakes Region is a World Heritage Site that covers 2,400 square kilometres in south-western New South Wales. Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Governor HE Professor Marie Bashir Premier Bob Carr (ALP) Area 809,444 km² (5th)  - Land 800,642 km²  - Water 8,802 km² (1. ...


The Region has important natural and cultural values including exceptional examples of past human civilization including the Worlds oldest cremation site. A small section of the Region is protected by the Mungo National Park. The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ... Categories: Stub | National parks of New South Wales ...


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Lake Mungo (559 words)
Lake Mungo is one of the seventeen lakes within the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area located in Mungo National Park in Australia.
They have found that mussels, cod and perch from the lake were gathered by the Aborigines as well as the hunting of wallabies, kangaroos and gathering of emu eggs.
When the lake, part of the Willandra Lakes region in far south-west NSW, dried up about 10,000 years ago, the bones and relics of the people who once lived on its shores were swallowed up by the desert sands.
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