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Weipa shell mounds
In short
Some 600 human built mounds of shellfish Anadara granosa, including ridges which are several hundred meters long and up to 13 meters high, up to 1,200 years old. Origin and purpose of these structures is not completely clear.
34.8%
GPS coordinates
12.8250 S 141.9300 E
Location, address
Australia and Oceania, Australia, Queensland, Far North, Weipa Town, some 20 km south from Weipa
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