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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 May 2010  Page Views: 6583

Rock ArtSite Name: Drysdale River National Park
Country: Australia
NOTE: This site is 574.794 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kalumburu
Latitude: 15.161389S  Longitude: 126.776389E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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no data Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Rock Art sites in North Western Australia. Drysdale River National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2,168 kilometres northeast of Perth. The park lies about 100 km south of Kalumburu and 150 km west of Wyndham.

The park is the largest and least accessible in the Kimberley with no public road leading to it and no airstrip within its boundaries. Access to the park is gained via the track from Carson River Station from the Kalumburu Road. Permission must be obtained from the Kalumburu Aboriginal Corporation prior to entering the park. There are no visitor facilities or marked walk trails in the park. Rangers do not patrol the park and no food, fuel or mechanical services exist within the park or at Carson River Station.

The park is a good example of untouched Kimberley wilderness featuring open woodland, gorges, cliffs and the pools, waterfalls and creeks of the Drysdale River. The park is home to two large waterfalls: Morgan Falls and Solea Falls with numerous smaller falls along the course of the river.

Source: Wikipedia

Note: Scientists document scores of rock art sites in the Kimberley region of Australia, see comment
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Re: Scientists document painted portals to a vanished past by DrewParsons on Wednesday, 12 May 2010
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I visited some sites like this in the rugged north west of Western Australia a few years ago. Our son is a geologist and he took us to a few caves and overhangs with vivid art work of as yet indeterminate age, there being so many sites spread across a state the size of Western Europe that many are still unknow to archaeologists.
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Scientists document painted portals to a vanished past by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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Last year, archeologist Mike Morwood and rock art specialist June Ross took the ride of their lifetime across the northwest Kimberley. They hired a helicopter and flew across largely trackless territory, their pilot landing periodically in spots where he felt he could get his helicopter down safely and where they believed a good rock art site might lie.

Their journey took them from Bigge Island, one of the Kimberley's largest offshore landmasses, east to inland pastoral stations, and north as far as the rugged Drysdale River National Park, the Kimberley's largest park that lacks an airstrip, ranger station or even a single road.

The pair's aerial reconnoitre recorded 27 locations in which they documented a total of 54 rock art sites. "It was an absolute revelation," Ross recalls. "What struck us was how many rock art sites there are, and we developed a great admiration for the artists who made them."

Across the Kimberley, hundreds of thousands of paintings lie in rock overhangs and caves, often behind curtains of tropical vines. Dappled light plays over the surface of hauntingly beautiful images that have made the region famous: Gwion Gwion or Bradshaw paintings depicting slender dancing figures in mulberry coloured ochre or younger images of Wandjina spirits, wide-eyed and startlingly white despite the passage of years.

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