Land

The land itself as a visible thing. Zircon-bearing conglomerate at the Jack Hills, which holds the oldest known fragment of the Earth's crust, banded iron in the Hamersley, the Bungle Bungle domes and their living stripes, the Pinnacles, Wave Rock, the Nullarbor, kwongan heath, karri and jarrah, Ningaloo's fringing reef, and the stromatolite pillars at Hamelin Pool. This is the floor the rest of the archive stands on.

Part of Western Australia

154 moments in this segment.

  1. - Houtman Abrolhos coral (Saville-Kent). A painting of coral growing at the Houtman Abrolhos islands, off the west coast of Australia. The coral was identified at the time as Madrepora, but this name was previously applied to virtually any hard coral.
  2. - Terns, Pelsaert Island. Photograph of Brown Noddy terns on Pelsaert Island in the Houtman Abrolhos. The Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island here on 4 June 1629.
  3. - Jarrah forest. Dieback caused by Phytophthora has reshaped what grows in this forest. Jarrah forest covers much of the southwest, and its timber and the bauxite beneath it have both been extracted from the same ground.
  4. - Cape leeuwin. The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly. Photographer: Unknown Object no. The Leeuwin-Naturaliste ridge runs down the southwest corner on Wardandi Noongar Country.
  5. - Proposed surface and tunnel routes for proposed Ballard-University highway, 1929. Map 1591, Seattle Municipal Archives. Antony Gormley's Inside Australia stands on the salt crust of Lake Ballard near Menzies, on Wangkatja Country.
  6. - Western Australia’s worst earthquake. An account of the Meckering earthquake, the most destructive recorded in Western Australia. It struck at 10:58:52 local time on 14 October 1968 at magnitude 6.5, on a public holiday. The town was effectively destroyed with no deaths and 20 to 28 injuries, and the shaking was felt in Perth 130 km away.
  7. - Trouble In The Bungle Bungles 1992. Footage shot in the Purnululu / Bungle Bungle Range in 1992, when access to the east Kimberley range was still difficult and largely by air. The banded sandstone domes were brought to wider non-Aboriginal attention in the 1980s, though Aboriginal people had known and used this Country continuously. Purnululu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2003.
  8. - Pilbara Adventure Tours in Karijini National Park, 1995. As this is an analogue image, predating digital, no time stamp or date are available. The gorges cut down through iron-rich sediment laid in an ocean before there was free oxygen in the air.
  9. - Thorny Devil WA. The limestone plain runs east from the goldfields toward South Australia without a tree on much of it. Edward John Eyre crossed it in 1841, guided in part by Aboriginal knowledge, with his companion Wylie completing the crossing with him.
  10. - MK-07628-33 Gantheaume Point (Broome). Broome sits on Yawuru Country. Dinosaur trackways in the reef rock at Gantheaume Point are exposed at low tide.
  11. - Australia.A2002231.0145.250m NASA Nullarbor. The plain is a single sheet of marine limestone lifted out of the sea, and it holds one of the world's largest cave systems. The limestone plain runs east from the goldfields toward South Australia without a tree on much of it.
  12. - 00 0865 Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Ningaloo Reef, an approx 250 km long coral reef on the west coast of Australia along the "Coral Coast". A special feature: The reef is usually only about 100 meters from the beach, so that it is easily accessible for swimmers, divers and snorkelers. Cape Range, the karst country behind the beach, is the terrestrial half of the listing.
  13. - 00 1847. Cape Range National Park - Western Australia. Cape Range National Park Westaustralien (im Westen der Halbinsel „North West Cape“): Die typische Vegetation ist Buschland und dicht beieinander stehende Termitenhügel. Ningaloo bleached in marine heatwaves in 2011 and again in 2025.
  14. - Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool. The stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, filmed in 2007 before the current boardwalk arrangements. The structures accrete slowly as cyanobacterial mats trap sediment. The pool's salinity is roughly double that of open seawater, which is what allows them to persist.
  15. - Z Bend. A photograph of the Murchison Gorge from the Z Bend lookout. Cyclone Seroja made landfall near Kalbarri on 11 April 2021, damaging about 70 percent of structures in the town and destroying about 40 percent.
  16. - Nullabor 360°. Edward John Eyre crossed it in 1841, guided in part by Aboriginal knowledge, with his companion Wylie completing the crossing with him.
  17. - At the Hamelin Pool Stromatolites preserve, near Denham and Monkey Mia - the last rays of the sun. Stromatolites are not unique to this bay: Lake Thetis holds them too, as do the Bahamas. The living pillars are colonies built by cyanobacteria, reaching about 1.5 metres and growing at roughly half a millimetre a year, so they are thousands of years old rather than billions.
  18. - Murchison River Gorge - Z-bend. The Murchison cuts its gorge through Tumblagooda sandstone before it reaches the coast. Kalbarri is on Nanda Country.
  19. - Boranup. 100 year old regrowth forest. Karri grows only where the rainfall and the soil coincide, in a narrow band of the deep southwest.
  20. - Puntukurnu Parna, A Short Film by Curtis Taylor. Puntukurnu Parna, a short film by Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor made through CuriousWorks. Taylor works from Parnngurr in the Western Desert and films Country from inside the community rather than as a visitor. The piece is one of the earliest of his works to circulate widely.
  21. - MMR2010 One Arm Point The Bardi Jawi Mob. One Arm Point at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula, filmed with the Bardi Jawi community. The community sits above the reef and tidal races of the Buccaneer Archipelago, where some of the largest tides in Australia run between the islands. Bardi Jawi hold native title over this land and the sea Country around it.
  22. - Wave Rock, 2012. Wave Rock, near Hyden, Western Australia. A couple of visitors to Australia, Toni (left) and Hannah (right), give an indication of the very substantial height of the wave. The granite face near Hyden stands on Ballardong Noongar Country.
  23. - On Country in the desert rangelands. RangelandsNRM films work on Country across the desert rangelands of Western Australia. The rangelands cover most of the state's land area and are managed through a mix of pastoral leases, Aboriginal-held land and conservation reserves. Ranger groups carry much of the on-ground work in the desert portion.
  24. - WTW Nov 2013 Team Flower 010. From w:Wikipedia Takes Waroona, Jarrah forest. Jarrah forest covers much of the southwest, and its timber and the bauxite beneath it have both been extracted from the same ground.
  25. - Karijini National Park, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Kalmina Gorge. Kalmina gorge has spectacular red cliffs of red banded iron formations, reflected in the waters of the gorge. The Pilbara Craton contains rock over three billion years old and covers about 507,896 square kilometres.
  26. - Giant Red Tingle Tree, Valley of the Giants Walpole Western Australia 314. Most spectacular local species is red tingle (Eucalyptus jacksonii) - giant eucalipt. This tree is over 22m in circumference and over 6m diameter. While bushfires have left the internal walls of the trunk black, the tree has survived over 400 years. The Valley of the Giants walk carries visitors through the crowns of tingle trees rather than past their trunks.
  27. - Kalbarri Eagle Gorge 1234. Waves from the Indian Ocean crash against the stark cliffs of Eagle Gorge, Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia. Cyclone Seroja made landfall near Kalbarri on 11 April 2021, damaging about 70 percent of structures in the town and destroying about 40 percent.
  28. - Walk along the oldest things on Earth (Hamelin pool stromatolites) II. This will make you feel like a little human; but lucky for you, this is going to happen in one of the most stunning and calm waters you will ever see.
  29. - Birriliburu IPA Declaration Ceremony, April 2013. The declaration ceremony for the Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area, held on Country in April 2013. The IPA covers Martu Country in the Little Sandy Desert, including the Katjarra / Carnarvon Range. Katjarra holds Karnatukul / Serpent's Glen, and has been closed to public visits since 2008 at the request of Traditional Owners.
  30. - Karijini National Park, The Pilbara, Western Australia. Australian Geographic in Karijini National Park in the Pilbara. Karijini sits in the Hamersley Range, cut into the banded iron formations that are the source of the modern iron ore industry. The same rock that makes the gorges is what the mines to the north and west are removing.
  31. - Kimberleys. Where I grew up in the Kimberly's It was taken in the Geikie Gorge national park.. The gorge is cut through a Devonian limestone reef, on Bunuba Country in the West Kimberley.
  32. - Whale shark (Rhincodon typus). The Ningaloo Coast was inscribed as World Heritage in 2011 on criteria (vii) and (x), covering 705,015 hectares. Whale sharks aggregate here between March and August, which is what criterion (x) recognises.
  33. - Purnululu. 20 million years into cone karst.
  34. - Cape Le Grande National Park Esperance. Frenchmans Peak is a spectacular granite formation, A climb to the top presents vistas in all directions. The granite headlands and white quartz sand of the south coast sit on Nyungar and Ngadju Country. The French names across this coast come from Baudin's charting expeditions of 1801 to 1803.
  35. - Aboriginal Ranger Training Camp at Credo Station. An Aboriginal ranger training camp at Credo Station in the Goldfields, run by the Goldfields Land and Sea Council. Credo is a former pastoral lease in the woodlands north of Kalgoorlie that was converted to conservation. Training on the station puts trainees on the ground they will later manage.
  36. - Kimberley Rangers – Introduction. The Kimberley Land Council introduces its ranger program, which works across Country held by nations including Bardi Jawi, Karajarri, Nyikina Mangala and Wunambal Gaambera. Ranger teams handle fire, feral animals, cultural site protection and marine monitoring. The KLC has represented Kimberley Traditional Owners since 1978.
  37. - a journey into martu country 1280x720. A short piece by ONE MARTU travelling into Martu Country in the Western Desert. Martu native title holders are the people who in 2018 asked researchers to redate Karnatukul / Serpent's Glen in the Katjarra / Carnarvon Range, work published in PLOS ONE by McDonald, Reynen and colleagues that returned an age of roughly 47,830 cal BP.
  38. - Cape Le Grand National Park, Western Australia. The granite headlands and white quartz sand of the south coast sit on Nyungar and Ngadju Country. The French names across this coast come from Baudin's charting expeditions of 1801 to 1803.
  39. - Granite Skywalk, Porongurup National Park. Fitzgerald River National Park carries plant communities found nowhere else. The Great Southern holds a dense concentration of the southwest's endemic plants.
  40. - Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia. The Stirling Range rises straight out of flat wheatbelt country. Fitzgerald River National Park carries plant communities found nowhere else.
  41. - Mandy Mandu Gorge. It is on the edge of the Ningaloo Reef which is in the North-west Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network. The Ningaloo Coast was inscribed in 2011 on criteria (vii) and (x), covering 705,015 hectares.
  42. - Bungle Bungle Range Purnululu National Park, Cathedral Gorge. Purnululu was inscribed as World Heritage in 2003 on criteria (vii) and (viii), covering 239,723 hectares. The orange bands are oxidised iron compounds in layers that dry too fast for cyanobacteria; the grey bands are living cyanobacteria growing where moisture holds. The stripes are partly alive.
  43. - The Window, Bungle Bungle Range Purnululu National Park. The orange bands are oxidised iron compounds in layers that dry too fast for cyanobacteria; the grey bands are living cyanobacteria growing where moisture holds. The stripes are partly alive.
  44. - Martuwarra / Fitzroy River proposed national park. Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River, runs through the West Kimberley and is central to the law and life of the nations along it.
  45. - Sturts Desert Pea at the beach. Todays outing was at Withnel Bay, in karratha Western Australia. The coast runs for thousands of kilometres from the Southern Ocean to the Timor Sea, across three climate zones.
  46. - Piccaninny River, Bungle Bungle Range Purnululu National Park. The story that this range was unknown until a 1980 s documentary describes only when non-Aboriginal Australians noticed it. Jaru and Gija people were here throughout.
  47. - Mitchell falls from helicopter. Mitchell falls aerial photo. The falls drop in tiers off the Mitchell Plateau in the north Kimberley.
  48. - Thorny devil, ningaloo. Whale sharks aggregate here between March and August, which is what criterion (x) recognises. The Ningaloo Coast was inscribed as World Heritage in 2011 on criteria (vii) and (x), covering 705,015 hectares.
  49. - Endless Stations 113 - Cheap Outback Motel. Overlander Roadhouse, North West Coastal Highway, Western Australia 24th of, October 2015:09PM. Shark Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage area on Malgana Country, with Hamelin Pool's hypersaline shallows inside it.
  50. - Dales Gorge Karijini National Park, Western Australia. Gorge rock face across the stream that runs from Fortescue Falls to Circular Pool. Karijini sits in the Hamersley Range among the banded iron formations that feed the iron ore industry, which puts the deep-time geology and the modern economy in one frame.
  51. - Push for Unesco protection in Western Australia's Kwongan country. Guardian Australia reports on the push for UNESCO protection of Western Australia's kwongan heathlands. Kwongan is the low sandplain vegetation of the south west, growing on some of the most nutrient-poor soils on the continent. The campaign argued that its scientific significance was not matched by its legal protection.
  52. - Wunambal Gaambera rock art. Rock art on Wunambal Gaambera Country in the north Kimberley. Access to art sites in this region is controlled by the Traditional Owners, and visits are made with rangers. No single age has been established for the Gwion Gwion figures of the Kimberley.
  53. - Birriliburu Rangers back on country in West Australian desert (extended). Birriliburu Rangers work on Country in the Little Sandy Desert, the extended cut of a Bush Heritage Australia film. The Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area covers Martu Country including the Katjarra / Carnarvon Range. Ranger work here combines fire management, waterhole maintenance and tracking surveys for desert species.
  54. - Spa Pool. 9and some of the old rocks at the surface on earth). Karijini sits in the Hamersley Range among the banded iron formations that feed the iron ore industry, which puts the deep-time geology and the modern economy in one frame.
  55. - Vista (Karijini National Park). Another overview shot of KNP showing colours and vastness. The park is on Banjima, Yinhawangka and Kurrama Country.
  56. - Oasis (Karijini National Park). One of the many pristine spots in KNP. The Pilbara Craton contains rock over three billion years old and covers about 507,896 square kilometres.
  57. - Sea of colours (Karijini National Park). Middle of nowhere in KNP, taken for the extreme differences in colour. The gorges cut down through iron-rich sediment laid in an ocean before there was free oxygen in the air.
  58. - Hancock Gorge (Karijini National Park). Shot showing the arid (above) contrast with lush (below). The same banded iron that makes the gorge walls red is the ore that leaves through Port Hedland and Dampier.
  59. - Purnululu / Bungle Bungle Range range. In 2022 the Federal Court recognised Purnululu and Gajangana Jaru as traditional owners, and the Bungle Bungles Aboriginal Corporation holds native title for Jaru, Gija and Malngin peoples.
  60. - Hamersley Range, Western Australia, April 1990. The entire Hamersley Range is visible in this synoptic view of northwestern Australia. The park is on Banjima, Yinhawangka and Kurrama Country.
  61. - Ningaloo WA, local kangaroo. This image was taken in Ningaloo WA, the kangaroos are locals up there and roam the camp sites, and are very friendly! Ningaloo bleached in marine heatwaves in 2011 and again in 2025.
  62. - Jarrah Forest En. The Jarrah Forest ecoregion, with Forest Ecosystem remnant vegetation type. Jarrah was cut for railway sleepers and wharf piles and shipped across the world.
  63. - Karri forest 3 Warren NP XII-2015. Karri grows only where the rainfall and the soil coincide, in a narrow band of the deep southwest. Karri is among Australia's tallest hardwoods.
  64. - Flowers of Gastrolobium rubrum (orange form) in Stirling Range National Park. The range rises out of flat wheatbelt country in the Great Southern and holds a concentration of endemic plants found nowhere else.
  65. - 160504 Abrolhos Island naturalist visit. Rock lobster fishers have worked seasonal camps on these islands for generations. The islands sit at the southern limit of coral growth in the Indian Ocean, warmed by the Leeuwin Current.
  66. - 160502 Abrolhos Islands. Underwater scenery at the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. The Houtman Abrolhos are a low coral island chain off Geraldton.
  67. - Pink Lake (Lake Hillier) on Middle Island off the coast of Esperance Western Australia. The granite headlands and white quartz sand of the south coast sit on Nyungar and Ngadju Country. The French names across this coast come from Baudin's charting expeditions of 1801 to 1803.
  68. - Cape LeGrand - Esperance - Western Australia. Cape Le Grand National Park east of Esperance, where granite headlands run into white quartz sand beaches. The granite is part of the Albany-Fraser Orogen, the belt of rock welded onto the southern edge of the Yilgarn Craton. This is Wudjari Country, held by the Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation.
  69. - Karajarri/Nyangumarta Rangers Nyapuru Creek Croc Trap. Karajarri and Nyangumarta rangers set and check a crocodile trap at Nyapuru Creek, filmed with the Kimberley Land Council. The two ranger groups share a boundary in the south Kimberley and run joint operations across it. Trapping work of this kind combines species management with public safety near community water.
  70. - Lake Ballard at Hoffler Creek 1 LR. Antony Gormley's Inside Australia stands on the salt crust of Lake Ballard near Menzies, on Wangkatja Country.
  71. - Mitchell Bruce R-- Shark Bay salt lakes. Francois Perron NP is a dry and very hot region where heat and high salinity determine the fate of everything. Small bushes and scrubby plants form intricate patterns and textures that are best viewed from above. Shark Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage area on Malgana Country, with Hamelin Pool's hypersaline shallows inside it.
  72. - Green Sea Turtle, Ningaloo Reef. A Green Sea Turtle comes up for air on the beautiful, World Heritage Listed, Ningaloo Reef off Western Australia. The reef runs about 260 kilometres and at Coral Bay lies under 500 metres offshore.
  73. - Highway sign, Nullarbor, 2017 (02). Highway sign on the Eyre Highway near Nullarbor, South Australia (which is visible in the background), marking the western end of the treeless plain.
  74. - Ningaloo Coast, Western Australia. Ningaloo coast view, looking north. Western Australia. It is described as Australia's largest fringing reef and the only large reef lying this close to a landmass.
  75. - Yiriman/Karajarri Rangers Caring for Country Training Program 2017. The Yiriman Project runs a caring-for-Country training program with Karajarri rangers, filmed in 2017. Yiriman was set up by Kimberley elders from four language groups to take young people back onto Country with older relatives. Training is delivered on the sites being managed rather than in a classroom.
  76. - A day out on country. A day out on Yawuru Country around Broome, filmed by Nyamba Buru Yawuru. Yawuru divide the year into three seasons keyed to the monsoon, and movement on Country follows them. The film records ordinary use of Country rather than a ceremony or a dispute.
  77. - Noongar Boodja Rangers. The Noongar Boodja Rangers working in the Wheatbelt with Wheatbelt NRM. Boodja is the Noongar word for Country. The Wheatbelt is the most heavily cleared part of Western Australia, so ranger work here is largely remnant vegetation and salinity repair on fragments.
  78. - Some Hill In Karijini. A hill with an ancient rock formation in the eastern part of Karijini National Park. Karijini sits in the Hamersley Range among the banded iron formations that feed the iron ore industry, which puts the deep-time geology and the modern economy in one frame.
  79. - ISS-57 Shark Bay and Sedimentary Deposits Reserve, Western Australia. The International Space Station was flying 257 miles above Western Australia when an Expedition 57 crew member photographed Shark Bay and Sedimentary Deposits Reserve on the west coast of the continent. Hamelin Pool runs at roughly double normal seawater salinity, which excludes the grazers that would otherwise eat the microbial mats.
  80. - ISS057-E-105409 - View of Western Australia. Western Australia taken during ISS Expedition 57. Dirk Hartog made the first recorded European landing on the west coast here on 25 October 1616, at Cape Inscription.
  81. - The Big Lagoon in the World Heritage listed Shark Bay region. The Big Lagoon area can be reached by 4 wheel drive vehicle along a sandy track. It is about 20 kilometres from the small town of Denham in the UNESCO World Heritage area of Shark Bay, Western Australia. Willem de Vlamingh found Hartog's pewter plate half-buried in sand on 4 February 1697 and took it to Amsterdam, where the Rijksmuseum holds it.
  82. - Hamelin Pool. The 3,500 million year figure belongs to the fossil forms these resemble, not to the structures standing here. They survive because the water is hypersaline at roughly double normal seawater, which keeps out the grazers that would eat the mats.
  83. - Marine turtle and dugong monitoring on Wunambal Gaambera country. Wunambal Gaambera rangers monitor marine turtle and dugong populations on their sea Country in the north Kimberley. The Uunguu Indigenous Protected Area covers both the land and the adjoining waters. Survey data collected by rangers feeds directly into the group's own healthy Country planning.
  84. - Janet Stewart shares Nyangumarta
  85. - Abrolhos Marine National ParkRobertoCostaPinto03. Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos de nível Federal, localizado (a) em Alcobaça (BA), Caravelas (BA)). The Houtman Abrolhos are a low coral island chain off Geraldton.
  86. - Gnulli Native Title Determination December 2019 - short version. The Gnulli native title determination of December 2019, covering Country around the Gascoyne and inland from Carnarvon. Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation ran the claim, which took more than two decades from lodgement. The Federal Court sat on Country to hand it down.
  87. - The case to recognise Indigenous knowledge as science | Albert Wiggan | TEDxSydney. Bardi Jawi man Albert Wiggan argues at TEDxSydney for recognising Aboriginal knowledge as science. His case rests on the observational record built over generations on Country in the Kimberley. He works on sea Country at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula.
  88. - Bilya Koort Boodja. Noongar Dandjoo reports on Bilya Koort Boodja, the Centre for Noongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge at Northam on the Avon River. Bilya Koort Boodja translates roughly as river, heart, Country. Noongar Dandjoo is a student-produced Aboriginal current affairs program made in Perth.
  89. - Riddell Beach (Yawuru Country). Riddell Beach on Yawuru Country south of Broome, where red pindan cliffs meet the tidal flats. The rock platforms here carry dinosaur trackways exposed at low tide along the Dampier Peninsula coast. The whole stretch sits within the Yawuru native title determination.
  90. - How did The Pinnacles form? Indigenous and scientific explanations | ABC Australia. ABC Australia sets an Aboriginal account of the Pinnacles alongside the scientific one. The Pinnacles are limestone columns standing in yellow sand in Nambung National Park north of Perth. Presenting the two explanations together, without ranking them, is the point of the segment.
  91. - The Indigenous Guardians of the Martuwarra, Australia. A short documentary on Traditional Owner guardianship of the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River. It follows the argument that the river is a single connected being from source to sea, and that damage anywhere in the catchment is damage to the whole. Filmed among the communities along the river in the Kimberley.
  92. - Cissy Gore-Birch on the Karajarri Women Rangers Team. 's ranger teams manage sites and knowledge that are women's business and not open to mixed groups.
  93. - Rock Face and Kalbarri Skywalk in Kalbarri National Park. The tourist attraction is so incredibly blended with the natural environment it is a part of, that I was keen to photograph it. Seroja moved southeast into the Mid West rather than out to sea, driven by a Fujiwhara interaction with Cyclone Odette, and hit a stretch of coast that does not get cyclones.
  94. - The Murchason Gorge with Kalbarri Skywalk Platform. A photo from one of the Kalbarri Skywalk platforms to the other, with the wonder of the Murchison Gorge and the Kalbarri National Park serving as background.
  95. - Kalbarri Skywalk Platform Over the Murchison Gorge. This opportunity to connect with the Kalbarri National Park is fantastic and I would encourage one and all to visit. Perfect for wheelchair users and the able-bodied alike.
  96. - Wave Rock Airport, Hyden, October 2020. Wave Rock Airport, Hyden, Western Australia. A low wall along the top of the rock channels runoff into the town's reservoir, which is how wheatbelt towns took water off bare granite.
  97. - Wave Rock Resort, October 2020. Wave Rock Resort, Hyden, Western Australia. Mulka's Cave, nearby and signposted, carries hundreds of hand stencils on its granite walls.
  98. - Stromatolite boardwalk, Hamelin Pool, July 2020. The Stromatolite boardwalk at sunset, Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Western Australia. The living pillars are colonies built by cyanobacteria, reaching about 1.5 metres and growing at roughly half a millimetre a year, so they are thousands of years old rather than billions.
  99. - Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station, July 2020. The former Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station in Western Australia, now a campground. They survive because the water is hypersaline at roughly double normal seawater, which keeps out the grazers that would eat the mats.
  100. - Vermin-proof fence, Shark Bay, July 2020. Vermin-proof fence near Shell Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia. The fence, constructed from 1995, is part of Project Eden. The fence was built to prevent movement of feral animals north of the isthmus, where the fence is located.
  101. - Mount Augustus Tourist Park, July 2020. Mount Augustus Tourist Park, Western Australia. Mount Augustus, just after sunrise, can be seen in the background. Burringurrah is the Wajarri name for this monocline, which stands on Wajarri Country in the Gascoyne.
  102. - Goordgeela Lookout Trail, Mount Augustus National Park, July 2020. It rises out of flat country as a single ridge of sandstone over an older granite core. Burringurrah is the Wajarri name for this monocline, which stands on Wajarri Country in the Gascoyne.
  103. - Ooramboo Trail, Mount Augustus National Park, July 2020. The Wajarri account of the place is held by its traditional owners and is not the geologists' account of it. It rises out of flat country as a single ridge of sandstone over an older granite core.
  104. - Mundee, Mount Augustus National Park, July 2020. It is often compared to Uluru, which is in the Northern Territory and a different formation entirely. The Wajarri account of the place is held by its traditional owners and is not the geologists' account of it.
  105. - Cattle Pool, Mount Augustus National Park, July 2020. Cattle Pool, Mount Augustus National Park, Western Australia, a permanent water hole on the Lyons River. It is often compared to Uluru, which is in the Northern Territory and a different formation entirely.
  106. - Saddle Trail, Mount Augustus National Park, at sunset, July 2020
  107. - Gascoyne River at Landor-Mt Augustus Road crossing, July 2020. ' account of it.
  108. - Landor-Mt Augustus Road, south of the Gascoyne River crossing, July 2020
  109. - Bathers Beach and Western Australian Maritime Museum, September 2020. The view extends to the North and South Mole Lighthouses and Wadjemup / Rottnest Island in the background. The coast runs for thousands of kilometres from the Southern Ocean to the Timor Sea, across three climate zones.
  110. - ISS-64 Shark Bay, Western Australia. Shark Bay on the coast of Western Australia is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above the Indian Ocean.
  111. - On Country with the Ngurrara Women Rangers. The Ngurrara Women Rangers work on Country in the Great Sandy Desert, filmed by Dylan Storer. Ngurrara people hold native title over a large area of desert south of Fitzroy Crossing. The women's team manages waterholes, burning and survey work on their own determination area.
  112. - Hiking the Murchison River Gorge in Kalbarri National Park. A walk through the Murchison River gorge in Kalbarri National Park. The gorge is cut into Tumblagooda Sandstone, laid down in the Silurian and carrying some of the oldest known traces of animals moving on land. The Murchison is one of the few large rivers on the WA west coast that reaches the sea.
  113. - Nullarbor Dreaming. National Speleological Society footage of caving on the Nullarbor. The plain has almost no surface drainage, so water moves underground through the limestone. Expeditions of this kind produced the survey data for the largest of the known chambers.
  114. - Noongar Boodja Six Seasons. Kings Park and Botanic Garden sets out the six Noongar seasons of the south west. Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba and Kambarang each carry their own weather, food and movement. The framework reads the year off the behaviour of plants and animals rather than off a fixed calendar.
  115. - Wadandi Tjaltjraak Cultural Exchange Project. The Undalup Association runs a cultural exchange between Wadandi and Tjaltjraak people, linking the Noongar south west with the Esperance coast. Wadandi Country covers the Leeuwin-Naturaliste ridge, where Devil's Lair sits. Exchange trips of this kind move knowledge along the coast between nations who share a boundary.
  116. - Sturt's Desert Pea, Cape Range National Park, Exmouth. Cape Range is the terrestrial half of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage listing, a karst system with its own subterranean fauna.
  117. - ISS-65 Derby, Western Australia. A portion of Western Australia off the coast of the Indian Ocean is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above. Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River, runs through the West Kimberley and is central to the law and life of the nations along it.
  118. - Charles Knife Canyon, Cape Range National Park, Exmouth 2. The reef runs about 260 kilometres and at Coral Bay lies under 500 metres offshore. Whale sharks aggregate here from March to August.
  119. - Bluff Knoll, Stirling Range, Western Australia. Sunrise that was worth the nighttime climate to the summit of Bluff Knoll. An incredible sunrise that is boasting perfect silky orange light ray sweeping between the peaks. Well balanced and composed. The range rises out of flat wheatbelt country in the Great Southern and holds a concentration of endemic plants found nowhere else.
  120. - Old growth karri forest, Warren National Park, southwest Western Australia. Forests like this were protected from logging after years of campaigning by local communities. The Valley of the Giants walk carries visitors through the crowns of tingle trees rather than past their trunks.
  121. - Porongorup National Park, southwest Western Australia. Porongurup National Park, Western Australia. All the national parks in southwest Western Australia are under threat from excessive prescribed burning, resulting in loss of species and habitats.
  122. - Voices of Martuwarra - Terry Murray. Terry Murray speaks for the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River in the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council's Voices of Martuwarra series. The council was formed by Traditional Owner groups along the river to speak with one voice about its future. The river is treated here as a living ancestral being with its own standing, not as a water resource.
  123. - Wunambal Gaambera savanna fire. Wunambal Gaambera rangers burn savanna Country early in the dry season in the north Kimberley. Cool early burns break the landscape into a mosaic so that late-season fires cannot run unchecked. The work is registered as a carbon abatement project, which turns fire knowledge into income for the group.
  124. - A new national park in WA's Kimberley region has been welcomed by traditional owners |ABC News. ABC News reports Traditional Owners welcoming a new national park in the Kimberley. Recent Kimberley parks have been created as joint management arrangements between the state and native title holders. The model gives Traditional Owners a formal role in decisions over their own Country.
  125. - The Karri Forest.
  126. - Aerial view of the Hamersley Range, June 2022. An aerial view of the Hamersley Range south of the Fortescue Marshes, Western Australia, seen from an aircraft window. The same banded iron that makes the gorge walls red is the ore that leaves through Port Hedland and Dampier.
  127. - Fortescue Falls within Dales Gorge (Karijini National Park). Looking down on Fortescue Falls from the stairway at the entrance to Dales Gorge. Karijini National Park. Water is brown due to heavy rainfall in the area prior to when the photo was taken.
  128. - Kalyuku Ninti (Return to Country) 2022. Kalyuku Ninti, or Return to Country, takes Martu families back to desert waterholes they or their parents left. The trips are organised by Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa and combine navigation, water knowledge and the transfer of site names between generations. This film covers the 2022 trip.
  129. - MARTU RANGER WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD. Ngaarda Media reports on a Martu ranger receiving an international award for work on Country. Ngaarda Media is an Aboriginal-owned broadcaster based in the Pilbara. Ranger programs across the Western Desert combine employment with fire, water and threatened-species management on native title land.
  130. - Iron mineralisation in the Pilbara Region, Western Australia. A Geological Society of Australia WA Division talk on iron mineralisation in the Pilbara. The Pilbara Craton contains rocks over three billion years old and covers roughly 507,896 square kilometres. The banded iron formations of the Hamersley Range are the ore bodies the state's export economy is built on.
  131. - Aboriginal Ranger Program - Ngurrara Rangers. The Ngurrara Rangers under the Western Australian Aboriginal Ranger Program, filmed by Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia. The program funds Aboriginal-run ranger teams to manage Country under their own governance. Ngurrara Country lies in the Great Sandy Desert south of the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River.
  132. - Bardi Jawi sea country. Bardi Jawi people on sea Country at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula, filmed with the Kimberley Land Council. Bardi Jawi rangers monitor turtle and dugong populations and manage access to reef and island sites. Sea Country here is held and read as closely as land.
  133. - Mayala on country. Mayala people on their Country in the Buccaneer Archipelago, filmed with the Kimberley Land Council. Mayala sea Country covers hundreds of islands off the Dampier Peninsula where tides among the largest in Australia drive water through narrow gaps. The Mayala determination recognised their rights over this island and reef system.
  134. - Pinnacles of Nambung National Park in the evening sun, September 2023. The Pinnacles of Nambung National Park, Western Australia, in the evening sun. The limestone spires stand in the yellow sand of Nambung National Park, north of Perth. They stand in the yellow sand of the Nambung dunes, exposed and reburied as the dunes move.
  135. - Caves Road at Mammoth Cave, Boranup, Western Australia, October 2023. The road has to be crossed from the cave exit back to the car park. Karri is among Australia's tallest hardwoods.
  136. - Banksia sessilis at Nambung National Park, September 2023. A Banksia sessilis at Nambung National Park, Western Australia. The limestone spires stand in the yellow sand of Nambung National Park, north of Perth. They stand in the yellow sand of the Nambung dunes, exposed and reburied as the dunes move.
  137. - Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus) at Nambung National Park, September 2023. The limestone spires stand in the yellow sand of Nambung National Park, north of Perth. They stand in the yellow sand of the Nambung dunes, exposed and reburied as the dunes move.
  138. - Cats on country- the journey of Nyangumarta Rangers managing cats on their country. Nyangumarta rangers manage feral cats on their Country, presented to the WA Feral Cat Working Group. Cats are the main predator of the small desert mammals that survive between the coast and the Great Sandy Desert. Rangers combine tracking, which reads cat movement the same way it reads any other animal, with trapping and baiting.
  139. - Sacred and significant Yamatji sites | Paint it Blak with Emma Garlett. Emma Garlett walks through sacred and significant Yamatji sites in the Murchison and Gascoyne. The segment sets out why site registration and legal protection matter to the people who hold those places. Sites of this kind sit across pastoral leases and mining tenements throughout the region.
  140. - New facilities to provide insight to earliest life on Earth at Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay. Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia opens new facilities at Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay. The living structures there are built by colonies of cyanobacteria, described as direct descendants of the oldest known form of photosynthetic life. Hypersaline water in the pool keeps out the grazing animals that would otherwise consume them.
  141. - Managing Wildfire with the Dampier Peninsula Fire Working Group. The Dampier Peninsula Fire Working Group manages wildfire across the peninsula north of Broome, filmed by RangelandsNRM. The group brings together Bardi Jawi, Nyul Nyul and neighbouring ranger teams with pastoralists and agencies. Early dry-season burning breaks the red pindan soils and scrub into a mosaic before the hot months.
  142. - The enormous cave system that lies beneath the Nullarbor Plain | 7.30. ABC 7.30 goes into the cave system beneath the Nullarbor Plain. The Nullarbor is a single slab of Miocene limestone, and the caves are dissolution voids inside it reached through collapse dolines. Some hold water tables well below the surface and preserve bones of animals that fell in.
  143. - Lucasium alboguttatum
  144. - Esperance Tjaltjraak Rangers Fish Ecology project | DPIRD. Esperance Tjaltjraak rangers run a fish ecology project on the south coast with the WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Tjaltjraak is the native title body for Wudjari Country around Esperance, known as Kepa Kurl. Ranger science work here is done under the corporation's own priorities.
  145. - Keeping Pakulyarra Safe. Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, the Martu organisation based in the Pilbara and Western Desert, documents work to keep Pakulyarra safe. Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa runs ranger teams and return-to-Country trips that bring older and younger Martu onto the same sites. Its films are made for Martu audiences first.
  146. - Wave Rock - Hyden - Western Australia. Wave Rock near Hyden in the Wheatbelt, a granite face on the flank of Hyden Rock. The dark vertical streaks are algae and mineral staining left by water running down the overhang. The rock sits on the Yilgarn Craton, the ancient granite block that underlies most of southern Western Australia.
  147. - The East Kimberley: A Miriwoong Story | Official Trailer. Trailer for a Miriwoong account of the East Kimberley, made by Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring, the Miriwoong language and culture centre in Kununurra. Miriwoong Gija Country takes in the ranges and rivers around the Ord. The centre runs one of the longest-running Aboriginal language revitalisation programs in the state.
  148. - World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef hit by 'catastrophic' bleaching event | 7.30. ABC 7.30 reports on the severe coral bleaching that struck Ningaloo Reef in 2025. Ningaloo is a fringing reef running close inshore along North West Cape and is World Heritage listed. The warm Leeuwin Current, which normally carries tropical water south down the west coast, was implicated in the heat that drove the event.
  149. - Nyangumarta Highway - Western Australia - October 2025. The Nyangumarta Highway, the track running inland from the Eighty Mile Beach coast across Nyangumarta Country, filmed in October 2025. The route was opened to public travel under a permit system controlled by the Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation. Access is granted by the Traditional Owners and can be closed by them.
  150. - Kiya Shows Joey The 6 Noongar Seasons | Play School. Kiya introduces the six Noongar seasons on ABC Kids Play School. Presenting the seasonal round to children on a national program puts Noongar knowledge of the south west into general circulation. Perth sits on Whadjuk Noongar Country, and the upper Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River shows occupation by about 40,000 years ago.
  151. - Uungu Rangers. PAKAM Network films the Uunguu Rangers at work on Wunambal Gaambera Country in the north Kimberley. PAKAM is the Kimberley's Aboriginal community media network, distributing to remote communities across the region. The rangers manage the Uunguu Indigenous Protected Area, which includes rock art sites and coastal Country.
  152. - 2026-03-17-Castle-Rock-. Panoramic view from lower platform on Castle Rock. The Great Southern holds a dense concentration of the southwest's endemic plants.
  153. - Claude Carter talks about how essential ground water is for the Martuwarra Fizroy.. Claude Carter explains why groundwater matters to the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River system. Surface flow in the Kimberley is seasonal, so the permanent pools that carry life through the dry depend on what sits underground. The argument connects an invisible aquifer to the visible river that Traditional Owners speak for.
  154. - More than 2 billion years of shearing along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. A Geological Survey of Western Australia talk on more than two billion years of shearing along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. Craton margins are where old continental blocks were welded to one another, and the shear zones record the motion. The same structures control where much of the state's gold sits.
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