Mikurrunya Hills is a geologic formation situated approximately east of Port Hedland, near Marble Bar Road at the Strelley turnoff, on Nyangumarta country. Mikurrunya Hills is a registered site on the National Native Title Register through the Department of Indigenous Affairs with site ID 9904, site No. P02286; the register records the native title as belonging to the Ngarla people.

The Nyangumarta people have a dreamtime story of the hills: Mikurri is a man with two wives, and the jealousy of the older wife forced the younger wife to live apart from the family.

Mikurrunya Hills

The name Mikurrunya was also that of the tri-lingual newsletter the Strelley Aboriginal community school produced in the 1970s.

Mikurrunya Hills

References

Geologic formations of Australia

Nyangumarta

Pilbara

Mikurrunya Hills