The moment
For at least 6,600 years the Gunditjmara have built channels, weirs and dams across the lava flows of Budj Bim to trap and farm kooyang, the short-finned eel, and lived in villages of stone houses beside their wetlands. Gunditjmara tradition holds that Budj Bim is an ancestral being who revealed himself in the landscape when the volcano erupted. In 2019 the landscape became the first Australian site placed on the World Heritage List solely for its Aboriginal cultural values.