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30 December 2015
Blackall Range
Australia
26°40'S
152°50'E
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FEW pockets of the Bunya pine remain, and the remote Baroon Pocket nestled deep in the Blackall Ranges now perpetually lies submerged beneath the still waters of the lake behind Baroon Dam.
With the advent of modern civilisation, the tribal peoples who gathered here from far and wide to share ideas and reconcile their differences over thousands of years no longer come. There are some who still remember the old traditions and continue to gather at the Bunya Mountains two hundred kilometres away.
The great walk remains as a quiet legacy to the otherwise forgotten pilgrimage of Australia’s largest gathering of indigenous people. Here they gathered to resolve their tribal differences and partake in the great Bunya nut feast.
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