WEST KIMBERLEY PLACE REPORT - Department of Sustainability ...
WEST KIMBERLEY PLACE REPORT - Department of Sustainability ...
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F<br />
The place has<br />
outstanding<br />
heritage value to<br />
the nation<br />
because <strong>of</strong> the<br />
place's<br />
importance in<br />
demonstrating a<br />
high degree <strong>of</strong><br />
creative or<br />
technical<br />
achievement at a<br />
particular<br />
period.<br />
Windjana Gorge National Park<br />
Particular aesthetic characteristics <strong>of</strong> Windjana Gorge National Park valued<br />
by the Australian community include the narrow gorge <strong>of</strong> the Lennard River,<br />
the colourful cliffs <strong>of</strong> the gorge and the fossil decoration on the gorge walls.<br />
Windjana Gorge National Park has outstanding heritage value to the<br />
nation under criterion (e) for its aesthetic characteristics valued by the<br />
Australian community.<br />
King Leopold Ranges Conservation Park<br />
Particular aesthetic characteristics <strong>of</strong> the King Leopold Ranges Conservation<br />
Park valued by the Australian community include the Lennard River Gorge,<br />
Bells Gorge, the rugged mountain ranges, the fault lines and twisted<br />
topography, spectacular gorges, waterfalls, rock pools and their fringing<br />
vegetation.<br />
The King Leopold Ranges Conservation Park has outstanding heritage<br />
value to the nation under criterion (e) for its aesthetic characteristics<br />
valued by the Australian community.<br />
The aesthetic value <strong>of</strong> rock art<br />
The stunning painted images <strong>of</strong> Creation Beings, ancestors, plants and<br />
animals in rock shelters in the west Kimberley, including the powerful<br />
Wanjina and intriguing Gwion Gwion/Girrigirro figures, are considered<br />
amongst the most spectacular examples <strong>of</strong> 'rock art' in the world (Flood<br />
1990, 70). Highly valued by non-Aboriginal people for their aesthetic values,<br />
these images are both powerful and <strong>of</strong> deep religious significance to<br />
Kimberley Aboriginal people.<br />
Aboriginal rock art paintings in the west Kimberley, particularly in the<br />
Wanjina-Wunggurr homeland the Balanggarra native title claim area and<br />
the Devonian reef, are both powerful and <strong>of</strong> deep religious significance to<br />
Kimberley Aboriginal people and have outstanding heritage value to the<br />
nation under criterion (e) as they represent a stunning visual record <strong>of</strong> an<br />
ongoing Aboriginal painting tradition in a substantially unmodified<br />
landscape.<br />
Design and innovation<br />
Painted rock images<br />
The painted images found in rock shelters and caves across the Wanjina-<br />
Wunggurr homeland, the Balanggarra native title claim area and in the<br />
limestone ranges <strong>of</strong> the Devonian reef provide an exceptional record <strong>of</strong><br />
painted rock art that is extraordinarily diverse and technically very detailed.<br />
Considered one <strong>of</strong> the longest and most complex painted 'rock art'<br />
sequences anywhere in the world, (Morwood 2002, 143) the west<br />
Kimberley complex <strong>of</strong> painted images is a creative achievement by<br />
Kimberley Aboriginal people that has outstanding heritage value to the<br />
nation under criterion (f).<br />
Sacred Heart church, Beagle Bay mission<br />
Built in a remote location from locally sourced material, the Sacred Heart<br />
church at Beagle Bay mission is a testimony to the ingenuity and<br />
resourcefulness <strong>of</strong> the Pallottine brothers and the Aboriginal residents <strong>of</strong> the<br />
mission who built and decorated it. The use <strong>of</strong> pearl shell and other media to<br />
Above<br />
threshold<br />
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