A north-western Australian region is the scene of conflicting passions over the preservation of its petroglyphs. aAR casts an eye over the interested parties.
A parcel of land in North Western Australia has been the scene of conflicting passions for some time now. It concerns the preservation of the remains of a 240-square-kilometre area — a stone-age site known to the Aboriginal people as Murujuga, formerly called the Dampier Archipelago and now called the Burrup Peninsula which, it has been agreed, contains the most extensive concentration of rock carvings (petroglyphs) to be found anywhere in the world.