Aboriginal sites appear to have survived fires that have torn through the Budj Bim National Park and Lake Condah relatively unscathed, an indigenous leader says.
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Much of the area, which was given UNESCO world heritage listing in June last year, has been scorched in the blazes and there is a plan for an $8 million redevelopment of the sites which is set to start later this year.
Those plans include a visitor centre near Lake Condah, upgrades to the visitor centre near the campground at what is also called Mount Eccles National Park and a cantilevered lookout and walkway over Lake Surprise.
Gundij Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation program manager Denis Rose said they were "well and truly" in the planning and design stage and it was hoped works would be completed by 2021.
"Construction will be happening this year on various parts of the project," he said.
Mr Rose said the fires hadn't affected the stone structures of both the fish traps and the stonehouse sites in the area which has been recognised as the world's oldest freshwater aquaculture system.
"Potentially there might be an issue with a tree toppling over or something like that but we have to wait until we get the OK from the fire agencies before we get out to have a good look around," he said.
"They've certainly survived pretty well we think. We're not too concerned about it."
Mr Rose said most of the fish traps - about 72 of them - were around Lake Condah and quite a bit of that area was burnt last week.
However, he said fire didn't particularly affect them.
"That's been the case for many thousands of years," he said.
"I tell people that they have been burnt over the years and that will continue to happen I suppose.
"We prefer not to have the fire of course, but it's not too bad."
However, in the wake of the fires he said there would be more of a focus on management activities on country.
They would also inspect the site before there was any regrowth to see if the fires had uncovered any other unrecorded fish traps and stonehouse sites.
"We've been fairly fortunate that other than a couple of horrendous days we've actually had relatively mild weather," Mr Rose said.
"In terms of fire there's a lot of other places who have a lot more pressing problems than us of course."
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