Bungonia National Park by NSW Search and Rescue workers. Bungonia National Park Bungonia National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Australian state of New South Wales, roughly east of the city of Goulburn and south-west of Sydney. The approximately park borders the Bungonia State Conservation Area to the South, Morton National Park to the East, and Bungonia Creek to the North. Only a relatively recent addition to the national parks registry, Bungonia was originally protected as a water reserve to prevent contamination of the Shoalhaven River in the mid-late 19th Century. The park is managed by the NSW
Mungo Park (explorer) sword belt returned to Senegal. Isaaco, and later Richard Lander, obtained some of Park's effects, but his journal was never recovered. In 1827 his second son, Thomas, landed on the Guinea coast, intending to make his way to Bussa, where he thought his father might be detained a prisoner; but after penetrating a little distance inland he died of fever. Park's widow, Allison, received a previously agreed upon £4,000 settlement from the African Association as a result of the death of Mungo Park. She died in 1840. Mungo Park's remains are believed to have been buried along the banks of