Editing Biamanga National Park (section)

==Aboriginal significance and sites==
The mountain and surrounds have important cultural links to [[Merriman Island|Umbarra]] (Merriman Island), [[Barunguba]] (Montague Island), and [[Dithol]] (Pigeon House Mountain).<ref name=sapphire/> The mountain is of particular significance to the people of [[Wallaga Lake]].<ref name=hidden/>

The park contains important Aboriginal sites,<ref name=picnic>{{cite web | title=Biamanga Cultural area | publisher=NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service | url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/picnic-areas/biamanga-cultural-area | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> in particular Biamanga, also known as Mumbulla Mountain, which is part a large [[Aboriginal ceremony|ceremonial]] and cultural track on the [[South Coast (New South Wales)|South Coast of New South Wales]] that includes other [[Aboriginal sacred site]]s of particular importance to the [[Yuin]] peoples.<ref name=sapphire>{{cite web | title=The Indigenous Story of Mt Mumbulla / Mumbulla Falls | website=About the Sapphire Coast NSW | url=http://sapphire-coast.com.au/national-parks/biamanga-national-park/aboriginal-significance-mumbulla/ | access-date=20 August 2021}}</ref> The mountain was named after Yuin leader [[King Jack Mumbulla]], aka Jack Mumbler, whose "tribal" name was Biamanga.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Ron |last1=Gaha |first2= Judy |last2=Hearn | title = The Aboriginal Peoples – The Yuin Tribes | quote = Taken from the book " Bermagui – A Century of Features and Families " by Ron Gaha and Judy Hearn. | publisher = Mumballa Foundation | year = 2004 | url = http://www.mumbulla.org/html/yuin_peoples.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050310170711/http://www.mumbulla.org/html/yuin_peoples.html | archive-date = 10 March 2005}}</ref> King Jack would spend time communing with the ancestor spirits on the highest peak of the mountain and send [[smoke signal]]s for his people to see. [[Initiation ceremonies]] were held by Yuin people at various spots on the mountain, with the last recorded one held there in 1918.<ref name=sapphire/> It has been described as a "men's law mountain".<ref name=plan2014/>

Independent evidence of the sacredness of the site was provided in 1964 by linguist [[Luise Hercus]] and by musician and linguist [[Janet Mathews]], but only made publicly available in the late 1970s; as well as by notes made much earlier by [[Alfred William Howitt]], an ethnologist who attended a Yuin initiation ceremony in 1883.<ref name=hidden/>

The Biamanga protest site is of additional significance both to Yuin and to all other [[Indigenous Australians]], "as a representation of embodying the [[Indigenous land rights in Australia|Australian Aboriginal campaign for land rights]] and [[Aboriginal self-determination]].<ref name=hidden/>