❓ A parliamentary question seeking quantitative data on rock art sites and petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula, including assessments, recordings, and impacts from industrial activity. The answer provides some data but acknowledges limitations and data gaps.
AnsweredQoN 2092Legislative Council
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(1) Has there ever been any quantitative assessment or recording of the number of rock art sites on the Burrup Peninsula?
(2) Has there ever been any quantitative assessment or recording of the amount of petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula?
(3) If yes to (1), and/or (2), by whom and when?
(4) When were rock art sites or individual petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula first recorded with the Department and by whom?
(5) What is the Department’s numerical and percentage estimate of the individual Gidley Granophyre petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula?
(6) What is the Department’s numerical and percentage estimate of the individual rock art sites on the Burrup?
(7) By what methodology have these numerical and percentage estimates been established?
(8) How many petroglyphs, by number and percentage, have been destroyed or relocated on the Burrup Peninsula since civil and industrial activity commenced?
(9) How many sites, by number and percentage, have been destroyed or relocated on the Burrup Peninsula since civil and industrial activity commenced?
(10) In relation to both sites and petroglyphs has there ever been a quantitative assessment or recording of their numbers in the Dampier Archipelago?
(11) If so, by whom and when?
(2) Has there ever been any quantitative assessment or recording of the amount of petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula?
(3) If yes to (1), and/or (2), by whom and when?
(4) When were rock art sites or individual petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula first recorded with the Department and by whom?
(5) What is the Department’s numerical and percentage estimate of the individual Gidley Granophyre petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula?
(6) What is the Department’s numerical and percentage estimate of the individual rock art sites on the Burrup?
(7) By what methodology have these numerical and percentage estimates been established?
(8) How many petroglyphs, by number and percentage, have been destroyed or relocated on the Burrup Peninsula since civil and industrial activity commenced?
(9) How many sites, by number and percentage, have been destroyed or relocated on the Burrup Peninsula since civil and industrial activity commenced?
(10) In relation to both sites and petroglyphs has there ever been a quantitative assessment or recording of their numbers in the Dampier Archipelago?
(11) If so, by whom and when?
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Answered
16 August 2005
Responded by
Minister for Fisheries representing the Minister for Indigenous Affairs
Response time
56 days
(2) Yes. (3) The assessments and recordings have been collected from the work of professional consultants conducting heritage surveys for proponents and other parties over the last 20 years. (4) The earliest rock art entry on the register for the Burrup is King Bay 1 recorded on the 1 March 1972 by Mr Warwick Dix, the first Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA). (5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(3) The assessments and recordings have been collected from the work of professional consultants conducting heritage surveys for proponents and other parties over the last 20 years. (4) The earliest rock art entry on the register for the Burrup is King Bay 1 recorded on the 1 March 1972 by Mr Warwick Dix, the first Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA). (5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(4) The earliest rock art entry on the register for the Burrup is King Bay 1 recorded on the 1 March 1972 by Mr Warwick Dix, the first Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA). (5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(3) The assessments and recordings have been collected from the work of professional consultants conducting heritage surveys for proponents and other parties over the last 20 years. (4) The earliest rock art entry on the register for the Burrup is King Bay 1 recorded on the 1 March 1972 by Mr Warwick Dix, the first Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA). (5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(4) The earliest rock art entry on the register for the Burrup is King Bay 1 recorded on the 1 March 1972 by Mr Warwick Dix, the first Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (AHA). (5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(5) No data is available to isolate rock art by rock type. (6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(6) There are 2,067 sites on the Register for the area between Pond Zero at Dampier Salt and north to Legendre Island but not including the islands of the greater Dampier Archipelago. The estimated total for Aboriginal sites (based on transect surveys measured site density of 56 sites per square kilometre) is 9,000. In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
In well-recorded areas rock art sites comprise 41 per cent of the sites. Therefore it can be estimated that the Burrup Peninsula will contain a total of 3,690 rock art sites. (7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(7) Analysis of the statutory register database (AHMS) output to an Excel spreadsheet using simple count functions and by query interrogation of a geographical information system (GIS) to derive areas in square kilometres (8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(8) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA) has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
Destroyed Relocated Preserved Number 4776 1682 3327 Percentage 7.2 2.5 5.0 (9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(9) Civil and industrial activity commenced before the AHA . Mining and pastoral activity also impacts heritage values and has done so since early settlement. The DIA has no data prior to 1972. Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
Destroyed Relocated Preserved Estimated Number 350 119 238 Percentage 4 1 3 (10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(10) Yes. (11) The DIA, in June 2005.
(11) The DIA, in June 2005.
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