QUICK FACTS
Name: Bungle Bungle Range
Location: Purnululu National Park, Western Australia
Coordinates: -17.488979797868172, 128.37026790005643
Why it's incredible: The rock formations contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth.
The Bungle Bungles are a collection of sandstone towers with distinctive orange and dark-gray stripes in Western Australia. Although Indigenous people have inhabited the area since time immemorial, the towers only came to the attention of the rest of the world in the 1980s, when filmmakers recorded them while shooting a documentary.
