Lake Mungo
is one of the seventeen lakes within the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area
located in Mungo National Park in Australia. It is located 987 km west of
Sydney.
Scientists have carbon dated
Aboriginal occupation in the area to about 40,000 years.
It was once a thriving area with a large lake feeding many local people.
The demise of Lake Mungo started with the coming of the last great ice age. The lake dried up during the ice age and never recovered.
The Mungo Wool Shed was constructed in about 1869 of locally harvested cypress pine using a drop-log construction.
Mungo
National Park was gazetted on the 21 March 1979 after it was acquired in 1978.
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| Walls of China |
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| Walls of China |
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| Old fence from the areas farming days |
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| Sheep Management Area |
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| Mungo Woolshed |
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| Old fence from the areas farming days |
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| Mungo Woolshed |
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| Lake Mungo |
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| Local Aboriginal Guide |
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| Walls of China |
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| Walls of China |
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| Sand Dunes looking to Lake Mungo |
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| Mungo Woolshed |
