失落的天堂——西澳和北领地的世界遗产

Paradise Lost Stories of the Natural and Cultural Heritage in Western Australia and Northern Territory

一块1770年才被欧洲人正式发现的青涩大陆,却承载着地球上最古老的生命印记。一块与世隔绝5000多万年的孤独大陆,却拥抱了来此避难的珍稀动物。一块千里无人烟的荒凉大陆,却栖息着非洲之外最古老的现代人祖先。这就是澳洲。背对这块大陆东海岸的众所周知的繁华,我们向西去,我们向北行,在西澳和北领地,邂逅澳洲鲜为人知的另一面。

A new continent, officially discovered by Europeans in 1770 though, has carried the oldest mark of life on earth.The continent, despite over 50 million years of isolation from the world, has embraced the rare animals coming to seek refuge.This is also a wild continent without inhabitants, but it witnessed the oldest ancestor of modern humans beyond Africa.This is Australia. In Western Australia and Northern Territory, we bumped into the other rarely-known side of Australia.