Uillandra Zlata Yeryomchenko 6 c school 20 Teacher

“Uillandra” Zlata Yeryomchenko 6 “c” school #20 Teacher: L. V. Fomina

One of the Australia’s amazing natural attractions is the Uillandra. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site #167. What is the Uillandra so famous for?

The Uillandra is an unusual “lake oasis” which stretches almost 2, 5 thousand kilometres in the southwestern part of the Australian state of New Wales. There are 19 lakes on the territory of the Uillandra and they are unique. They were formed over 2 million years ago! Of course the water in them evaporated very long time ago.

The nature in these places, unlike other regions of Australia, is not rich in semi-arid landscapes. There are many sand dunes, fields with rare shrub and grass, small woodlands with eucalyptus and coniferous trees such as white pines and Australian blue cypresses.

The territory of the Uillandra is rich in traces of ancient human life dated 45 -60 thousand years before our century. The unique oldest cremations in the world were found here by archaeologists in 1968 and 1974. These burials of our ancestors are the most ancient of found ones earlier.

It is interesting that the ancient wilderness of the Uillandra is reminiscent of the Lunar landscape with occasional small eucalyptus groves.

About 50 thousand years ago giant marsupials disappeared here. Among them there were giant kangaroos. Their height was about 3 metres and their weight was about 200 kilograms. Paleontologists found many skeletons of kangaroos and other giant animals in the Uillandra.

Aborigines of the Uillandra are always ready to be guides in archaeological, geological and paleontological expeditions. They are guides of pedestrian and bicycle tourist routes too.

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