Burrup Peninsula

Burrup Peninsula was named after Mount Burrup in 1979 by Woodside Petroleum Pty Ltd during the planning stage of the North West Shelf Gas Project, whose onshore operations are located on the peninsula.

The peninsula is a unique ecological and archaeological area since it contains the world's largest and most important collection of petroglyphs – ancient Aboriginal rock carvings some claim to date back as far as the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. The collection of standing stones here is the largest in Australia with rock art petroglyphs numbering over one million, many depicting images of the now extinct Thylacine ("Tasmanian Tiger").

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