Lake Mungo remains "Homo sapiens" (human) remains found on the Australian continent. Lake Mungo is a dry lake located in south-eastern Australia, in the south-western portion of New South Wales. It is about due west of Sydney and north-east of Mildura, and 110 km north-west of Balranald. The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park, and is one of seventeen lakes in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region. Sediments at Lake Mungo have been deposited over more than 100,000 years. There are three distinct layers of sands and soil forming the Walls around the edge of the lake. The oldest
Innes National Park Cape Spencer on a beach now known as Ethel Beach during 1904 is protected under the South Australian "Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981". SS "Ferret" which run aground in 1920 on what is now Ethel Beach is protected under the "Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976". "Hougomont" which was scuttled in 1932 to form a breakwater lies close to the coastline near Stenhouse Bay is protected under the "Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981". Innes National Park Innes National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the southwest tip of Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital