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The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is the site of one of the world’s oldest and most extensive aquaculture systems, dating back at least 6,600 years. The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia, cut hundreds of metres of channels into bedrock and utilised the local volcanic rock to manage water flows and divert water from surrounding wetlands into naturally forming sinkholes on the lava flow. In doing so, they built a complex system of channels, weirs and dams in order to trap, store and harvest Kooyang (eels). These man-made structures are older than the Pyramids, they’re older than Stonehenge. So not only could the Gunditjmara be the oldest fish farmers in the world, they could also be the world’s oldest engineers!
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in August 2019, for its Outstanding Universal Value.
