page_title: Ngarrabullgan
section_title: 1991
hierarchical_section_title: Ngarrabullgan / History / Cultural Renaissance / 1991
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken of Djunan elders and new executive raising flag, after resolving to regaion ownership of Ngarrrabullgan, 1991
context_page_description: Ngarrabullgan, officially named Mount Mulligan by the State, is a large tabletop mountain located 100 kilometres west of Cairns in the north of Queensland.
  The tabletop mountain is a monolith bounded by high cliffs that fall 200 to 400 m to the surrounding Hodgkinson Basin, making it an impressive natural monument which is regarded by the local Djungan Aboriginal peoples to be a sacred 'Dreaming' place, and features in the mythological legends and beliefs of other Aboriginal groups for hundreds of kilometres around.
  On the tabletop itself are found the two oldest-known Aboriginal sites in Queensland: Nonda Rock and Ngarrabullgan Cave. Here Aboriginal cultural deposits have been radiocarbon dated, and dated by optically stimulated luminescence, back to 40,000+ years ago.
  Other ancient Aboriginal rockshelter sites on the mountain have been dated to the end of the last Ice Age, and, together, the many 'archaeological' caves and rockshelters found in and around Ngarrabullgan constitutes Queensland's greatest density of known sites dating back more than 4,000 years BP.
context_section_description: 27 July:  over 150 Djungan people had travelled from Cairns, Yarrabah, Innisfail, Townsville, Chillagoe and Mareeba, to re-unite and form the Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation; to raise the pan-Australian Aboriginal flag; and to resolve to regain ownership of Ngarrabullgan.
  August: the Australian Government (i.e. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) approved the purchase of Kondoparinga property, and Ngarrabullgan, for the Djungan people.
  December: Kondoparinga had been purchased, and the Djungan peoples had regained ownership of Ngarrabullgan.  Queensland Government's Department 
  of Environment had sought to excise Ngarrabullgan from the property at the time of purchase, but, at the last moment, a binding agreement was negotiated and agreed to see Ngrrabullgan remain part of the property and later declared a National Park to be managed by a majority Djungan board of management
caption: Kuku Djungan raise flag and resolve to regain ownership of Ngarrabullgan
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