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Mungo National Park is a protected national park that is located in south-western New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 110,967-hectare (274,210-acre) national park is situated approximately 875 kilometres (544 mi) west of Sydney in the Balranald Shire .
Lake Mungo is a dry lake located in New South Wales, Australia. It is about 760 km (472 miles) due west of Sydney [1] and 90 km (56 miles) north-east of Mildura. The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park, and is one of seventeen lakes in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region.
The Willandra Lakes Region, including Mungo National Park, is near Arumpo. The Tronox titanium /mineral sand mine is located 16 km south of Arumpo, [ 2 ] trucking ore to freight trains at Ivanhoe, New South Wales .
[citation needed] A small section of the region is protected by the Mungo National Park. The World Heritage status of the region was created and negotiated in 1981. [1] The site was gazetted on the Australian National Heritage List on 21 May 2007 [2] under the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1), 2003 (Cth). [3]
Mungo National Park can be visited by tourists and is accessed by an unsealed road. Boardwalks have been installed throughout the sand dunes and visitors are forbidden from stepping off the boardwalks unless accompanied by an Aboriginal guide. In 2014, fake bones were buried throughout the area as part of an experiment for La Trobe University ...
Pooncarie is the closest centre to Mungo National Park which is 88 kilometres (55 mi) away, and fuel is available at the store which reopened in July 2013. [ 8 ] Heritage listings
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