Mount Clunie National Park Mount Clunie National Park The Mount Clunie National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The park is situated approximately north of Sydney and can be located via via the Bruxner Highway and the Summerland Way. The park's north-eastern limits define the state border between New South Wales and Queensland. The park is part of the Focal Peak Group World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007. The park is also part of the Scenic Rim
Lake Mungo remains the original (perhaps remarkably small) group of humans who left Africa via the middle-East. In 2001, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the Lake Mungo 3 (LM3) skeleton was published and compared with several other sequences. It was found to have more than the expected number of sequence differences when compared to modern human DNA (CRS). Comparison of the mitochondrial DNA with that of ancient and modern Aborigines led to the conclusion that Mungo Man fell outside the range of genetic variation seen in Australian Aboriginal people, and was used to support the multiregional origin of modern humans hypothesis. These results proved