Murijuga Petroglyphs

Murijuga is the Aboriginal word for the site of the biggest collection of rock carvings in the world. Marijuana is on the Burrup peninsular in the north of West Australia. Murijuga is so special that it should be named next to the great pyramids or Stonehenge. In fact it is six times older than the former and eight times older than the latter. This is the oldest

and the most extensive collection of petroglyphs and standing stones anywhere in the world and probably also the oldest. There are thousands of them; it's like a giant ancient library. To construct more petrochemical industry there is like shifting part of Stonehenge to mine coal.In the eighties about 2000 Petroglyphs were removed from their original sites into a 'temporary storage area' without any consultation of Aboriginal elders by Woodside Petroleum to construct facilities and a pipeline to exploit the Northern Shelf natural gas field. Now Woodside wants to remove more petroglyphs and destroy more standing stones to expand their facilities.