The Bungle Bungles are a series of striped, dome-shaped rock formations.
The Bungle Bungles are in the Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) National Park, is in the eastern Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.
They are believed to have originally been formed by wind and rain erosion.
The Aborigines used to converge on the area during the winter, where they feasted on the plant and animal life that thrived in the winter, after the rains earlier in the year.
The area is full of ancient Aboriginal cave paintings and rock art.
Aborigines sheltered on the domes during the horrific period in Australia's history when large-scale massacres of Aborigines occurred. They climbed up using tree branches, then pulled the branches up after themselves.
The Bungle Bungles were not really discovered as a travel destination until the mid 1800s.
The horizontal stripes of the domes are produced by layers of black lichen and orange silica.
The meaning of the name "Bungle Bungle" is uncertain, and it is not even certain whether the word is aboriginal in origin. The name could either be derived from the aboriginal name for the region...
About 375-350 million years ago during the Devonian period, sandstone and conglomerates were deposited in the Ord Basin to create a plateau. Over the last 20 million years the plateau has been eroded...
The Bungle Bungles are in Purnalulu National Park. The distance from Perth to Purnalulu is around 3,023 km. Such a trip would take around 36 hours of non-stop travelling.