Purnululu National Park
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Purnululu National Park |
UNESCO
- Country
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Australia |
Map
- Continent
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Australia
- Location
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Western Australia
-17.5000° Lat, 128.5000° Lon |
Map
- Code
- 1094
- Time Zone
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Australia/Sydney (AEDT, +1100)
- Current Time
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- Category
- Natural
- Description
- Inscribed 2003. The 239,723 ha Purnululu National Park is located in the State of Western Australia. It contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years into a series of beehive-shaped towers or cones, whose steeply sloping surfaces are distinctly marked by regular horizontal bands of dark-grey cyanobacterial crust (single-celled photosynthetic organisms). These outstanding examples of cone karst owe their existence and uniqueness to several interacting geological, biological, erosional and climatic phenomena.
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