Ubirr

- 12.40946132.959268Koordinaten: 12 ° 24 ' 34 "S, 132 ° 57' 33" E

The rock formation Ubirr is located on the edge of the Nadab floodplain in Arnhem Land within the Kakadu National Park in the north of Australia. There are significant Aboriginal rock carvings on the rocks. The rock paintings can be seen from a parking lot of over one kilometer long trail. The main gallery is accessible for the disabled.

Ubirr itself is about 40 km from Jabiru away and you can reach it by a paved road. However, may be temporarily closed during the rainy season this road.

Most of the paintings in the main gallery are from the freshwater period and are mostly painted in X-ray style. Here food resources of the Aborigines are represented, for example, barramundi, catfish, Saratoga, monitor lizard, snake -necked turtles and wallabies. Marsupials are the most common motifs in Aboriginal art. A second period, which can be seen here, is referred to as the contact style. The figures have been developed also in the Büffeljadgzeit around the turn of the century and represent hunting scenes shows and encounters with "white hunters ". Located several meters above the ground a drawing of a bag wolf, a now extinct type force which was the largest carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

Hunting scene

Hunter

Drawing of the bag wolf