Mungo National Park is an extraordinary national park located in south-western New South Wales, Australia, 876 km west of Sydney. The park is part of the Willandra Lakes Region and a World Heritage Site covering 2′400 square km with seventeen dy lakes.

The park is very significant for it archeological remains. Mungo National Park provides an exceptional record of climate and landscape evolution for the past two million years. Important fossils have been found there featuring remains of the giant-faced kangaroo.

The picture displays the central feature of Mungo National Park, Lake Mungo Lunette, which is the second largest of the seventeen lakes there. Lake Mungo has been dry for thousands of years and now is lake of salt bush. Lunette is a crescent-shaped dune on the downwind side of the lake bed. So there have alternating layers of sand and clay that have built up on the downwind side of what was once a lake bed or a lake floor.

The place is not just a National Park. It’s also a time machine, where Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were found,  a discovery that changed ideas about early Aboriginal occupation and culture.