Wilpena Pound
by Lexa Harpell
Title
Wilpena Pound
Artist
Lexa Harpell
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Photograph - Photographs
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Wilpena Pound by Lexa Harpell.
Morning light on Wilpena Pound is a natural amphitheater of mountains in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Mostly sandstone, eroded into gentle folds over hundreds of millions of years.
The local name is Ikara, meaning "meeting place" Wilpena, is reported to be Aboriginal, meaning "place of bent fingers"; this might either be a reference to the mountains resembling the shape of a gently cupped hand.
Wilpena Pound was formed when two Dreamtime serpents traveled south and carved the landscape in their wake, according to the tradition of the Adnyamathanha people.
The Adnyamathanha aboriginals were the original inhabitants of Wilpena Pound. The Adnyamathanha translate Pound to mean 'meeting' or 'initiation place' in their own language. The Yura Muda (collection of language and culture of the Adnyamathanha) passed down the story of how Wilpena Peak was formed, in which two Akurras (dreaming serpents) ate a large sum of people gathered for a celebration, which caused the serpents to be unable to move from their eating grounds. The head of the male and female serpents formed St. Mary Peak and Beatrice Hill, respectively." *Wikipedia
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