Purnululu National Park is in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and its main attraction is the Bungle Bungle Range, a landscape of beehive-shaped sandstone domes banded in orange and gray. The bands are caused by differences in clay content and by dark cyanobacteria that live on the surface. Aboriginal people of the Kija and Jaru groups have lived in the area for tens of thousands of years, and the name Purnululu is a Kija word for sandstone. The domes became widely known to outsiders only in the 1980s, after a documentary film crew drew attention to them. UNESCO inscribed the park on the World Heritage List in 2003. Visitors come in the dry season to see Cathedral Gorge and Echidna Chasm, mostly by four-wheel-drive vehicles or scenic flights.
Before and after
- 1987Creation of Perl
- 1987Never Gonna Give You Up
- 1987Singing Revolution
- 1987Invention of traceroute
- 1987Establishment of Purnululu National Park
- 1987Construction of London City Airport
- 1987The tomb of the Lord of Sipan is found
- 1987Child mortality falls below 10% worldwide
- 24 January 1987Birth of Luis Suárez
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