Pilbara

Iron Planet

By World Wild Places

May 5^th, 2018

Pilbara is a very colorful and other planate looking region. It is one of the hottest places on Earth with summer temperatures of 45 °C been common. The soil is very reach with iron, and if you are going to drop a megnet on the surface, some dust and sand grains would stick to it. Iron ore and many other minerals make Pilbara one of the major Australian industrial areas. The region is also very reach with Aboriginal history and culture however many of those sites are at risk due to mining development.

Millstream Chichester National Park

Burrup Peninsula

Deep Gorge

Burrup Peninsula probably has the biggest concentration of aboriginal rock art in Australia, perhaps in the world. Been located in Dampier industrial area, it is in a big danger of one of the biggest Australian industrial development.

While walking through the Deep Gorge, the petroglyphs are everywhere and the path is passing through the huge aboriginal midden of composed cockle shells. It is hard to imagene that only a few generations ago, there have been a completely different way of life here, until the European development in 1965.

Ancient aboriginal midden of composed cockle shells, in Deep Gorge.

KARIJINI National Park

Some of the most amazing landscape features of the area are within Karijini National Park, with it deep and narrow gorges and colorful mountain ranges.