A decades-long campaign to secure a World Heritage listing for Australia’s largest collection of rock art has finally been taken to UNESCO. The Murujuga cultural landscape, containing over a million petroglyphs, has now made it to the Tentative World Heritage list.

The federal government lodged a submission in late January for the Murujuga cultural landscape on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula to be included on Australia’s world heritage tentative list, the first formal step toward achieving global recognition for the 50,000-year-old gallery of more than one million petroglyphs.

Learn more about the Murujuga World Heritage nomination