Murujuga National Park
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How it came to be
Murujuga lies on the Pilbara coast of Western Australia and takes in the Burrup Peninsula, the Dampier Archipelago, the surrounding sea and the submerged landscape beneath it. Its land and sea were shaped by the Lore of the Ngarda-Ngarli, its Traditional Owners and Custodians. UNESCO recognises more than 50,000 years of continuous care under Traditional Law.
The engravings were made by pecking away the red-brown iron oxide skin of the rock, and there are estimated to be around a million of them, along with about 2,500 archaeological sites including quarries, shell middens and campsites. Between February and May 1869 a great number of Yaburara people were killed in the Flying Foam Massacre, and five groups took over the care of the land afterwards.
In 1963 the island was joined to the mainland by a causeway for a road and railway, and industrial development followed from the 1960s. On 7 July 2008, 90 percent of the remaining rock art areas were placed on the National Heritage List, and on 17 January 2013 Murujuga National Park was declared as the state's 100th national park. Government and industry hold that emissions are not damaging the art while independent academics disagree; the landscape was inscribed in 2025.
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