Bungle Bungles

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The Bungle Bungles (or Purnululu) is found and located in Purnululu, Western Australia. The Bungle Bungles is well known for the great ranges, which were only “discovered” by a film team in 1983. The cultural and spiritual significance of this landform traces back to almost 20,000 years ago. Also, the cultural and spiritual aspects of this landform is extremely vital to the vast existence of the landform itself and the people who inhabit it. The primary and original owners of this landform region are the Djaru and Kija people, who are Aboriginal. The Aboriginals who inhabit the Bungle Bungles benefit from the landform too. Australia’s indigenous people have adapted to the riverine features by moving to highlands during wet seasons (where the

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