Kaarta Gar-up
Elevated freeway-era lookout on a Noongar sacred hill, once a road-construction viewing deck.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Kaarta Gar-up lookout in Kings Park, Perth, follows what the platform on Mount Eliza was actually built for in nineteen sixty seven, and the freeway project that reshaped the shoreline below it years earlier. It traces the site's Noongar name and its place in Waugal Dreaming stories, plus the string of uses the building cycled through afterward. Stand at the rail and look toward the river for a sense of the view it was built to frame.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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