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Also known as Mount Mulligan

Ngarrabullgan (also Njrrabulgan, Nurrabullgan, Ngarrabullgin, or Nguddaboolgan), officially named Mount Mulligan by the State, is a large tabletop mountain (18 km by 6.5 km) located 100 kilometres west of Cairns in the north of Queensland (Australia).

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  • Geomorphology
  • Flora and fauna
  • Heritage status
  • Register of the National Estate
  • Queensland Register of Aboriginal Heritage
  • History
  • Hodgkinson River gold-rush
  • Mount Mulligan coal mining
  • Cultural Renaissance
  • 1986
  • 1988
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 2007
  • Archaeological sites
  • See also
  • External links
  • References

Ngarrabullgan (also Njrrabulgan, Nurrabullgan, Ngarrabullgin, or Nguddaboolgan), officially named Mount Mulligan by the State, is a large tabletop mountain (18 km by 6.5 km) located 100 kilometres west of Cairns in the north of Queensland (Australia).

The tabletop mountain is a monolith bounded by high cliffs (or escarpments) 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 (see Dreamtime), and features in the mythological legends and beliefs of other Aboriginal groups for hundreds of kilometres around.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ngarrabullgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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