By Day
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| A section of Lake Mungo IMAGE: Wagga Air Centre Click on image to enlarge |
A section of Lake Mungo in south-west New South Wales, a large, ancient dry lake bed around 65-88 metres above sea level. The lake hasn't contained water for the last 18,000 years but was once an important water and food source for Aboriginal people.
The oldest ritual burials on the shores of Lake Mungo have been dated to circa 42,000 years.
Their descendants, the Barkandji/Paakantyi, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngiyampaa people remain traditional owners of the land.
By Night
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Photographer John Rutter: ‘This Mars-like landscape is the shores of the ancient Lake Mungo, where some of the oldest human remains outside Africa have been discovered, making it a significant site for all humankind. Its remote location grants it a Bortle 1 sky (the darkest and clearest), allowing you to stand where the first Australians once did and gaze at the same sky they beheld. The beauty of the arid, wind-carved landscape and the untouched sky is only eclipsed by the rich history of this area’
Photograph: John Rutter/2024 Milky Way photographer of the year
The Guardian, 21 May 2024
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