Ubirr
Coordinates: 12 ° 24 ′ 34.1 ″ S , 132 ° 57 ′ 33.4 ″ E
The rock formation Ubirr is located on the edge of the Nadab floodplain in Arnhem Land within the Kakadu National Park in northern Australia . There are significant to the rock Aboriginal - petroglyphs . The rock paintings can be viewed from a parking lot via a circular path that is only 1 km long. The main gallery can also be reached by the disabled.
Ubirr itself is about 40 km from Jabiru and can be reached via a paved road. However, this road can be temporarily closed during the rainy season .
Most of the paintings in the main gallery are from the freshwater period and are largely painted in the x-ray style. Here the food resources of the Aborigines are shown, for example barramundi , catfish , saratoga , monitor lizard , snake-necked turtles and wallabies . Marsupials are the most common motif in Aboriginal art. A second period seen here is called the contact style. The figures were created during the buffalo hunt around the turn of the century and depict hunting scenes and encounters with "white hunters". Several meters above the ground there is a drawing of a pouch wolf , a species that is now considered extinct and was the largest carnivorous marsupial of modern times.
Rock drawing of a turtle at the Ubirr
Hunting scene
Hunter
Drawing of the thylacine
fishes
Web links
- Google Map of the Kakadu National Park including art sites (English)