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 (AEST, +1000)

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.