Qualla: Ngarrabullgan https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ngarrabullgan https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan Ngarrabullgan: Introduction https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan/ Photo credit Public domain. The Djungan people knew not to sleep here. Ngarrabullgan, the great tabletop mountain the State calls Mount Mulligan, rises west of Cairns as a wall of sandstone eighteen kilometres long, its cliffs falling as much as 400 metres to the plains below. It is a place of power and of danger, home in Djungan understanding to a spirit named Eekoo who can throw sickness into a person, hooks and stones and slivers of wood that leave no mark on the skin. And so for generations the Djungan approached the summit with caution and did not camp upon it. What makes this extraordinary is that the earth itself remembers the same thing.

Read more: Ngarrabullgan on Qualla

Image: Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/rjnb-ngarrabullgan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ngarrabullgan: Among the Oldest Places https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. On top of the mesa lie two of the oldest known Aboriginal sites in Queensland, Nonda Rock and Ngarrabullgan Cave, where cultural deposits have been dated by radiocarbon and by optically stimulated luminescence to more than 40,000 years ago. Human hands worked stone here while ice...

Read more: Ngarrabullgan on Qualla

Image: The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia. | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/rjnb-ngarrabullgan-among-the-oldest-places.mp3 0:06 2 full Ngarrabullgan: The Mountain Left to Eekoo https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Then, around six hundred years ago, the archaeological record on the summit falls silent. People stopped camping there. For a long time this puzzled researchers, until they recognised that the excavated evidence and Djungan tradition were describing the very same event: a deliber...

Read more: Ngarrabullgan on Qualla

Image: The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia. | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/rjnb-ngarrabullgan-the-mountain-left-to-eekoo.mp3 0:06 3 full Ngarrabullgan: A World on the Tabletop https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Geologically, Ngarrabullgan is an accident of deep time. The land first cracked open along a narrow rift, which filled with Permian coal, then conglomerate, then Triassic sandstone; over millions of years the softer rock around it wore away, leaving this hard massif standing alon...

Read more: Ngarrabullgan on Qualla

Image: The original uploader was Bruceanthro at English Wikipedia. | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/rjnb-ngarrabullgan-a-world-on-the-tabletop.mp3 0:06 4 full Ngarrabullgan: Gold, Grief, and Recognition https://qualla.com/ngarrabullgan/ Photo credit Public domain. The Hodgkinson River gold rush of 1876 brought catastrophe to the Djungan. As miners and police poured into the district, the local population was decimated, and survivors were pushed to the fringes of settlements at Thornborough and Mount Mulligan. The Djungan remember grandpare...

Read more: Ngarrabullgan on Qualla

Image: Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/b/ngarrabullgan-wp/rjnb-ngarrabullgan-gold-grief-and-recognition.mp3 0:06 5 full