Purnululu National Park
The 239,723 ha Purnululu National Park is located in the State of Western Australia. It contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years into a series of beehive-shaped towers or cones, whose steeply sloping surfaces are distinctly marked by regular horizontal bands of dark-grey cyanobacterial crust (single-celled photosynthetic organisms). These outstanding examples of cone karst owe their existence and uniqueness to several interacting geological, biological, erosional and climatic phenomena.
Western Australia
S17 30 0 E128 30 0
Date of Inscription: 2003
Criteria: (vii)(viii)
Property : 239,723 ha
Buffer zone: 79,602 ha
Ref: 1094
Source: http://whc.unesco.org
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