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Documents Regarding The Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program.

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This document is a World Heritage Tentative List submission for the Murujuga Cultural Landscape in the Pilbara, Western Australia, submitted by the Department of Environment and Energy in January 2020. The submission, prepared by the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation on behalf of five Traditional Custodian groups (Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Yaburara, Mardudhunera, Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo), details one of the world's most significant petroglyph collections across approximately 37,000 hectares. The area contains over one million rock art images spanning 42 islands and surrounding waters, representing the densest concentration of hunter-gatherer petroglyphs globally and documenting thousands of generations of maritime and arid cultural heritage. The petroglyphs hold spiritual and cultural significance as the work of ancestral Marrga beings and constitute an inherited

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