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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Climbers have been banned from some parts of the Grampians amid an increasingly vocal battle over disputed claims that they're ...
The Grampians region in Victoria's west is home to about 90 per cent of south-eastern Australia's surviving Aboriginal rock art. It also contains some of the best rock climbing sites in the world.
See Grampians National Park in the Wimmera region of western Victoria has the largest number of rock art sites in southern Australia, some dating back more than 20,000 years. Known as Gariwerd to ...
About a third of the Grampians National Park closed to climbers ... almost 90 per cent of south eastern Australia's Aboriginal rock art The park is also world renowned for its rock climbing ...
Bushfires continue to burn out of control at the Grampians National Park in ... national park that is home to about 200 Indigenous rock art sites, State Control Centre spokeswoman Reegan Key ...
In response, Parks Victoria undertook an audit of rock-art shelters in the greater Grampians. Archaeologists employed by Parks Victoria highlighted problems with bolting and chalk use at Lil Lil and ...
The cave was the latest and most significant of about 40 rock-art sites to be rediscovered in the last seven years in the Grampians – or Gariwerd as they are called by the people whose ancestors ...
Parks Victoria has shut down large swathes of the Grampians from access, including to climbers, walkers and campers, allegedly to protect cultural heritage such as rock art. Much of the rock art ...
Ben Gunn, an archaeologist and rock art specialist who recently wrote a paper on the effects of climbing in the Grampians, says he has no doubt who causes the most damage in the park. He also ...
Australian Climbing Association Vic says the state government is moving to shut down most of the Grampians for public use. One rock climber reported receiving two visits from a unit investigator ...