Purnululu National Park World Heritage Site

Official name
Purnululu National Park | UNESCO
Country
Australia | Map
Continent
Australia
Location
Western Australia
-17.5000° Lat, 128.5000° Lon | Map
Code
1094
Time Zone
Australia/Sydney (AEDT, +1100)
Current Time
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.