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Burrup Rock Art
Burrup may refer to: * Burrup Peninsula Murujuga, formerly known as Dampier Island and today usually known as the Burrup Peninsula, is in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, containing the town of Dampier. The Dampier Rock Art Precinct, which covers ... (Murujuga), an island in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia * Electoral district of Burrup, Western Australia 1996-2005 * Eddie Burrup, a pseudonym under which Elizabeth Durack painted in the 1970s and '80s See also * {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burrup Peninsula
Murujuga, formerly known as Dampier Island and today usually known as the Burrup Peninsula, is in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, containing the town of Dampier. The Dampier Rock Art Precinct, which covers the entire archipelago, is the subject of ongoing political debate due to historical and proposed industrial development. The Murujuga National Park lies within Burrup, and contains within it the world's largest collection of ancient rock art. The region is sometimes confused with the Dampier Peninsula, to the north-east. History The traditional owners, the Indigenous people of the Burrup Peninsula, are an Aboriginal nation known as the Yaburara (Jaburara) people. In Ngayarda languages, including that of the Aboriginal people of the peninsula, the Jaburara (or Yaburara) people, ''murujuga'' meant "hip bone sticking out". Between February and May 1869 a great number of Yaburara people were killed in an incident known as the Flying Foam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
