The Bulago River flowing westward across the East Strickland Plain from the Muller Range to the Strickland River.
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Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949-
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This photograph was taken with the aid of pilot Rob Willis-Jones, Missionary Aviation Fellowship, Tari, Southern Highlands (now Hela) Province. The main Bogaya population is found in the Bulago Valley. The cliffs at the head of the valley are scarred by frequent landslides. An escarpment of between 800 and 1 000 metres high overlooks the East Strickland Plain along the length of the Muller Range.In addition to the escarpment, the most characteristic feature of the Muller Range, which in places rises above 3000 metres, is the presence on its limestone plateau summit of huge dolines. Dolines look like enormous bomb craters of 100 to more than 400 metres in diameter with nearly vertical side walls. Parts of the plateau have the appearance of having been carpet bombed. Dolines appear to have been formed by the collapse of caverns created by a very active underground drainage system that continually dissolves the limestone and mudstone that form the range.
The Muller Range (‘Von Mueller Range’) was named in honour of Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, the Government botanist of Victoria, Australia. Captain Henry Everill, leader of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia expedition to the Fly River and its tributaries, gave the name to a mountain range that he sighted from the Strickland River, on 24 September 1885. Von Mueller was greatly interested in the flora of New Guinea and encouraged its exploration. Over the years the ‘von’ has been dropped and' Mueller’ now appears on maps as Muller.
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29 Dec 1980
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