Beginning our walk towards the 'Walls of China' on the eastern side of Lake Mungo. This photo shows only a small part of the 'walls'. It's hard to convey the enormity of the landscape, and the impact it has as you walk across the lake under the huge inland sky of south-western NSW.
'The Walls of China' is a lunette, a high crescent dune of clay and sand. These so-called 'walls' are believed to have been named in 1869 by Chinese workers building the Mungo Woolshed (see my previous two posts).
Lake Mungo itself is one of several dry lakes now included in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage area and part of Mungo National Park. The lakes have been dry since at least the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago.
It was at Lake Mungo (on the other side from here) in 1968 and 1974 that Professor Jim Bowler found the bone pieces that have since been dated and identified as 'Mungo Man', and 'Mungo Lady', evidence of human occupation of the area some 42,000 years ago.
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