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Purnululu National Park, Western Ausralia

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Resources

Find out more

• Nomination of Purnululu National Park by the Government of Australia for Inscription on the World Heritage List (PDF - 2,115 KB)
• Purnululu factsheet (PDF - 415 KB)
• Map (PDF - 523 KB)
• Purnululu World Heritage nomination
• World Heritage Committee information for Purnululu National Park 

Available in the library

• Nomination of Purnululu National Park by the Government of Australia for Inscription on the World Heritage List
  Environment Australia, 2002.
• Nomination of Purnululu National Park by the Government of Australia for Inscription on the World Heritage List, Supplementary Information
  Provided by Australia in support of the nomination, Environment Australia, September 2002.

Publications

• Akerman, K, (1998), The original inhabitants. In The Australian Geographic Book of the Kimberley, revised edition. D McGonigal (ed.). Australian Geographic Pty Ltd.
• Australian Heritage Council's Register of the National Estate database .
• Eldridge, DJ; Lepage, M; Bryannah, MA and Ouedraogo, P, (2001), Soil Biota in Banded Landscapes, In DJ Tongway, C Valentin and J Seghieri (eds)., Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semiarid Environments: Ecological Processes and Consequences for Management, In Ecological Studies, vol. 149. Springer, New York.
• Elkin, AP, (1930), The Rainbow-serpent myth in North-West Australia. In Oceania, vol. 1, pp. 349-352.
• Elkin, AP, (1932), Social organization in the Kimberley Division, North-Western Australia. Oceania, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 296-333.
• Forbes, SJ and Kenneally, KF, (1986), A botanical survey of Bungle Bungle and Osmond Range, south-eastern Kimberley, Western Australia. In Western Australian Naturalist, vol. 16, pp. 93-169.
• Hoatson, D; Blake, D; Mory, A; Tyler, I; Pittavino, M; Allen, B and Kamprad, J, (1997), Bungle Bungle Range - Purnululu National Park, East Kimberley, Western Australia: a guide to the rocks, landforms, plants, animals, and human impact, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
• Kaberry, PM, (1937), Subsections in the East and South Kimberley tribes of North West Australia, In Oceania, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 436-458.
• Kaberry, PM, (1938), Totemism in East and South Kimberley, North-west Australia. Oceania, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 265-288.
• Kaberry, PM, (1939), Aboriginal Woman: sacred and profane. George Routledge and Sons, London.
• Maddock, K, (2001), Women, Religion, and the Meaning of the Sacred in Phyllis Kaberry's Australian Ethnography. In Anthropological Forum, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 55-71.
• McGregor, W, (1988), A survey of the languages of the Kimberley region - report from the Kimberley Language Resource Centre. In Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2, pp. 90-101.
• Ross, H, (1989), Impact stories of the East Kimberley. (East Kimberley Working Paper, no. 28). Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
• Scarlett, NH, (1985), A preliminary account of the ethnobotany of the Kija people of Bungle Bungle outcamp. (East Kimberley working paper, no. 6). Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
• Thomas, R with Akerman K; Christensen W and Caruana W, (1994), Roads Cross. The Paintings of Rover Thomas. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• Viles, H, (1995), Ecological perspectives on rock surface weathering: Towards a conceptual model. In Geomorphology, vol. 13, pp. 21-35.
• Wray, RAL, (1997), A global review of solutional weathering forms on quartz sandstones. In Earth Science Reviews, vol. 42, pp. 137-160.
• Young, RW, (1986), Tower Karst in Sandstone: Bungle Bungle massif, northwestern Australia. In Zeitschrift Fur Geomorphologie, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 189-202.
• Young, RW, (1987), Sandstone landforms of the tropical East Kimberley Region, Northwestern Australia. In Journal of Geology, vol. 95, pp. 205-218.
• Young, RW, (1988), Quartz etching and sandstone Karst: Examples from the East Kimberleys, Northwestern Australia. In Zeitschrift Fur Geomorphologie, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 409-423.