Mungo National Park

The Mungo National Park is a protected national park that is located in south-western New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 110967ha national park is situated approximately west of Sydney in the Balranald Shire. Mungo National Park is the traditional meeting place of the Muthi Muthi, Nyiampaar and Barkinji Aboriginal Nations. People are no longer able to climb the sand dunes as stricter rules have been enforced.The national park is part of the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Willandra Lakes Region, an area of that incorporates seventeen dry lakes. The seventeen dry lakes are not all called mungo but are all declared world heritage, also the creek that used to flow into mungo is being preserved as a sacred site. The national park is about south-east of, north-east of Mildura, Victoria and approximately south-west of. The roads to, in or around the park may become hard to travel in 2-wheel-drive cars but with care can be navigated in suvs or 4x4's.Features and locationThe central feature of Mungo National Park is Lake Mungo, the second largest of the ancient dry lakes. The Mungo National Park is noted for the archaeological remains discovered in the park. The remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains discovered in Australia, and Mungo Lady, the oldest known human to have been ritually cremated, were both discovered within the park. They were buried on the shore of Lake Mungo, beneath the 'Walls of China', a series of lunettes on the South eastern edge of the lake.