Aboriginal sites lodged with Department Planning, Lands and Heritage (DPLH) for Bungalbin (Helena and Aurora Range)
On Bungalbin (Helena and Aurora Range), there are eight Registered Aboriginal Heritage sites. These were registered in December 2016.
There are a further 11 Aboriginal sites that are listed on the Register and referred to as Other Heritage Places, as they have yet to be fully assessed by the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee (ACMC). The 11 Other Heritage Places were lodged as early as 2002. Five of these 11 sites have been given the status of ‘insufficient information’. The 19 Aboriginal Sites on Bungalbin are listed in the table below.
(source 2024: dplh website (Department of Planning Lands and Heritage (dplh) website / Aboriginal Heritage / Aboriginal Heritage Inquiry System, AHIS)1.
The 19 Aboriginal Sites2 on Bungalbin
| Site Id. No. | Registered or Other | Name and Purpose of place (Access status not given here) |
| 5600 | Other | Bungalbin, Artefacts / Scatter; Camp, water source |
| 18726 | Registered | Aurora Ranges Women's Place; Artefacts / Scatter, Ceremonial Grinding patches / grooves, Historical, Painting |
| 18728 | Other | Ochre Quarry |
| 18729 | Other | Rockholes |
| 18730 | Other | Helena/aurora Ranges Gully; Mythological, Historical; Camp, Hunting Place, Water source |
| 18731 | Other | Helena/aurora Ranges Engraving |
| 18732 | Registered | Helena Cave; Artefacts / Scatter, Ceremonial, Engraving,Historical, Rockshelter |
| 20336 | Other | Ky19; Mythological, Artefacts / Scatter; Camp, Water source |
| 20342 | Other | Ky28; Mythological, south side access to top of range (eastern ore deposit) |
| 29178 | Other | J5 Rockhole 1 |
| 29179 | Other | J5 Rockhole 2 |
| 36942 | Registered | Tjarralapalpal Peak and Range; Mythological |
| 36943 | Registered | KY19c Tjaangi – Jasper Reef; Mythological |
| 36948 | Registered | KY28a Rockshelter & Stone Arrangement; Mythological, Rockshelter |
| 36949 | Registered | KY28b Mythological site, Watersource and Stone arrangement; Artefacts / Scatter, Mythological, Natural Feature |
| 36950 | Registered | KY28c Mythological sites, Rockshelters & Stone arrangements; Artefacts / Scatter, Mythological, Rockshelter |
| 36951 | Registered | KY28d Mythological site, Helena Aurora Range; Mythological |
| 18278 | Other | Hangover Bore 14 |
| 18279 | Other | Hangover Bore 03 |
Note 1: The information of sacred sites is continually being updated. For an update on sacred sites on Bungalbin (Helena and Aurora Range) go to the Aboriginal Heritage Enquiry System (AHIS) on the Department of Planning Land and Heritage (DPLH). (From 2013-2017, there was the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA), which was previously Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) from 2001-2013). Aboriginal heritage and land functions (from the DAA) were incorporated in to Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage in April 2017 by the McGowan government, when 41 government departments were reduced to 25 government departments. The Department of the Premier and Cabinet are now responsible for Aboriginal Affairs policy.
Note 2: Not all Aboriginal sites are recorded on the Register and some sites may no longer exist. However, “the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 protects all Aboriginal sites in Western Australia whether or not they are registered.” (DIA website, 15 January 2012).
For more information on Aboriginal heritage on Bunglabin (Helena and Aurora Range) see Traditional Owners of Range and Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage
