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Lake Mungo is a dry lake located in New South Wales, Australia. It is about 760 km (472 miles) due west of Sydney [ 1 ] and 90 km (56 miles) north-east of Mildura . The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park , and is one of seventeen lakes in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region .
Mungo National Park is a protected national park that is located in south-western New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 110,967-hectare (274,210-acre) national park is situated approximately 875 kilometres (544 mi) west of Sydney in the Balranald Shire .
The Lake Mungo remains are three prominent sets of human remains that are possibly Aboriginal Australian: Lake Mungo 1 (also called Mungo Woman, LM1, and ANU-618), Lake Mungo 3 (also called Mungo Man, Lake Mungo III, and LM3), and Lake Mungo 2 (LM2). Lake Mungo is in New South Wales, Australia, specifically the World Heritage listed Willandra ...
Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson. Presented in the pseudo-documentary format with elements of found footage and docufiction , it is Anderson's only film.
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Mungo Man and Mungo Woman, names of two sets of prehistoric human remains found in Australia - see Lake Mungo remains; John Mungo-Park (1918–1941), British fighter pilot; Mungo Jerry, a 1970s British rock group; Mungos, a mongoose genus; Mongo (disambiguation) St. Mungo's (disambiguation) Moengo, Suriname, a town; Moungo (department), Cameroon
The oldest human remains found are at Lake Mungo in New South Wales, which have been dated to around 41,000 years ago. The site suggests one of the world's oldest known cremations, indicating early evidence for religious ritual among humans. [9]
Mungo Park commemorative medal. Mungo Park (10 September 1771 – 1806 [1] [2]) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa.After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are ...