New South Wales, Australia · Tradition
Indigenous sacred sites in New South Wales, Australia
Explore 7 Indigenous sacred places in New South Wales, Australia, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Baiame Cave
Milbrodale / Singleton, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
On a sandstone escarpment above Bulga Creek in the Hunter Valley, a painted figure with outstretched arms spanning roughly five metres represents the creator being known...
Ku-ring-gai Chase Aboriginal Heritage Walk
Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
The Aboriginal Heritage Walk in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park threads past rock engravings, hand stencils, and middens left by the Garigal and Darramurragal peoples...
Lake Mungo
Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, Australia
In the dry lakebed of outback Australia lies evidence of humanity's earliest spiritual practices—a woman cremated with ceremony 42,000 years ago, a man laid to rest with...
Mount Yengo
Wollombi / Yengo National Park, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Mount Yengo's unusually flat summit is understood by its Aboriginal custodians as the place where Baiame, the creator being, completed his work and returned to the sky...
Mutawintji Historic Site
Mutawintji / Broken Hill region, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Mutawintji holds one of New South Wales's largest collections of Aboriginal rock art, at a site that hosted regional gatherings of up to a thousand people for initiation...
Red Hands Cave
Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
A sandstone shelter in the Blue Mountains carries dozens of ochre hand stencils, left by Darug and Gundungurra people across centuries and dated to roughly 500 to 1,600...
Worimi Conservation Lands
Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Along the coast north of Newcastle, the largest moving coastal sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere stretch 32 kilometres....
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