Valuing Uluru As An Aboriginal Cultural Landscape

Indigenous tourism is a key element of our protected area estate’s existing, which is a potential tourism offer. Many Aboriginals come and see their cultural site. Uluru is cultural as it’s a living cultural landscape that of which is considered sacred to the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people. These people are the traditional owner of the Uluru-kata Tjuta national park.

The Map lays out the landscape as we know it now. As we continue to bank insight on the evolution of the

Did you know Australia use to be a big prison? Australia is the 6th largest continent. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country. In Australia there are more kangaroo’s than people. A person in Australia hasn’t died from a spider bite since 1987. The top ten deadliest snakes live in Australia. There are over 200 different languages which are spoken in Australia. This includes 45 languages, as well non-English languages like Greek, Italian, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Arabic. A desert area known as the outback covers much of the land.

New South Wales West locates one of the greatest archaeological sites in Australia’s history, that is, Lake Mungo.

Kangaroo Point Cliffs are one of the most iconic places that highlight Brisbane city’s history along with the Brisbane City Hall and Story Bridge. These cliffs were known by Aborigines even before European settlers arrived in Brisbane. The development around the Kangaroo Point Cliff was started in the 1900s when roads were developed around the cliff. Today, the Kangaroo Point Cliff offers many adventurous activities such as rock climbing, kayaking on the Brisbane River, Segway tours, bike riding around the garden etc. The rocks found on these steep cliffs are known as the ‘Brisbane Tuff’. These unique pink and green stones were also used in building public buildings during the 1820s and 1830s. The very steep feature and gas holes on the cliff plays a significant role in identifying these cliffs a result of a volcanic eruption (Visit Brisbane, 2018). This essay analyses geological formation of Kangaroo Point cliff and the Brisbane tuff which the

There is close to 5000 Aboriginal sites in the Sydney region including rock carvings, ncluding rock art, shell middens, axe grinding grooves, ceremonial grounds, burial sites, stone quarries, fish traps and water holes.

For Aboriginal Australians, the land has a special significance that is rarely understood by those of European descent. The land, or country, does not only sustain Aborigines in material ways, such as providing food and shelter, it also plays a major role in their spiritual lives. As Rose put it, "Land provides for my physical needs and spiritual needs." (1992, p.106). To use Rose 's own term, to Aboriginals the land is a 'nourishing terrain '. (1996, p.7).

An appealing option over Cairns’ more hectic tourist pace, Port Douglas with the outer Great Barrier Reef less than an hour off-shore, and the Daintree Rainforest in its back pocket, so to speak, is one place that still offers Aussies ideal vacation attractions found no where else.

On 26 October 2019 Uluru climbing will be prohibited. This significant decision shows respect to the Aboriginal culture that consider Uluru a sacred place. Banning the climb is necessary even if the number of visitors who decide to climb the rock is dropping considerably. In 1990, 74% of the tourists climbed Uluru, but now the new kinds of experience that involve people deeply in the indigenous culture have reduced this percentage. In 2015, only 16.2% visitors climbed to the top, and the others chosen to respect the indigenous tradition (Uluru climbs will be banned from October 2019 after unanimous board decision to ‘close the playground’, 2017). There are several reasons to respect Aboriginal people: the deeper respect that they have to the land, they are the most ancient culture survived until now, and the international visitors more and more prefer the genuine contact with an indigenous experience.

Throughout Uluru there is Little Vegetation, Waterholes, Rock Caves, Several Springs,Historically Uluru has 46 native Species, and has Several Ancient Paintings.

To better understand Aboriginals as a Dream Culture I want to give more insight into Aboriginal Australians general culture and their conceptions of “Dream Time.” In his discussion of religion, Mircea Eliade describes a concept of Cosmos vs Chaos (Eliade 1957). In this notion an unordered world is chaotic only until is it transposed during a sacred time: “By occupying it and, above all, by settling in it, man symbolically transforms it into a cosmos though a ritual repetition of the cosmogony” (Eliade 1957:31). In other words until a land is tamed or created it is considered unordered. This can be applied to Aboriginal’s understanding of the world prior to their current presence. Aboriginals believe that in a time before the Dreamings, the land and world was a featureless earth. It was not until the dreamtime, or time of creation: “where there is contact with appearances from both realms of inside the earth itself as from ill-defined upper region” that the earth began to have its composed landscapes (Cowan 1992:26). The Dream Time is not only a period but more of a dimension where ancestral beings moved across the earth and created not only land, but every aspect of the earth including animals, plants, and man. It is important to realize that the ancestors created the natural earth and that is why Aboriginals live a particular lifestyle. Most Aboriginals living in this cosmogony are hunter-gatherer tribes. This aspect of their life can be traced to stem from the idea of

The Ngarrindjeri nation arrays across the South East section of South Australia; as seen in Figure 1.

Standing as a massive sandstone pillar in Australia's Northern Territory, Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is definitely one of the sights you shouldn't miss during your visit. Other than a close range view to the renowned pinnacle of Red Centre desert, the uniquely formed rock offers a whole lot more experience. Here are some points to convince you:

An Inselberg is an isolated hill, knob, ridge or small mountain which rises abruptly from gently sloping or generally flat area (a plain).

Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world, and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2,941,299 square miles, Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150,000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert, but as you move outward the climate changes to grassland, subtropical, tropical, and even temperate in the southeastern region. [1] While more than 70% of Australia is arid, the rest includes a variety of rich environments including flood plains,