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Rock Art Site sacred sites in Australia

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Ku-ring-gai Chase Aboriginal Heritage Walk
Indigenous

Ku-ring-gai Chase Aboriginal Heritage Walk

Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, 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...

Burrungkuy (Nourlangie)
Indigenous

Burrungkuy (Nourlangie)

Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Australia

Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) rises from the Kakadu floodplain as a rock art complex occupied for more than 6,000 years, its Anbangbang gallery holding an x-ray-style painting...

Carnarvon Gorge Art Gallery
Indigenous

Carnarvon Gorge Art Gallery

Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland, Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland, Australia

Deep in a sandstone gorge in central Queensland, a sheltered rock wall carries roughly 2,000 stencils, engravings and paintings built up over thousands of years....

Nanguluwurr Art Site
Indigenous

Nanguluwurr Art Site

Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Australia

Nanguluwurr sits in a quiet rock shelter on the northern flank of Burrungkuy, along a route Bininj/Mungguy people have walked for millennia....

Murujuga Cultural Landscape
Indigenous

Murujuga Cultural Landscape

Dampier / Karratha, Western Australia, Dampier / Karratha, Western Australia, Australia

Murujuga's red rock holds an estimated one to two million petroglyphs made over 40,000 to 50,000 years by the ancestors of the Ngarluma, Yaburara, Mardudhunera,...

Napwerte / Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve
Indigenous

Napwerte / Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve

Hale / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Hale / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Australia

South of Alice Springs, a shallow claypan is bordered by low sandstone outcrops bearing one of the densest concentrations of rock engravings in the Northern Territory....

Ubirr
Indigenous

Ubirr

Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Australia

Ubirr rises above Kakadu's Nadab floodplain, its galleries layered with rock art spanning tens of thousands of years and its escarpment tied to the Dreaming journey of...

Quinkan Split Rock Art Site
Indigenous

Quinkan Split Rock Art Site

Laura, Queensland, Laura, Queensland, Australia

Split Rock rises above the Peninsula Development Road south of Laura, its sandstone overhangs holding painted and engraved figures generations old....

Red Hands Cave
Indigenous

Red Hands Cave

Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, 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...

N'Dhala Gorge Nature Park
Indigenous

N'Dhala Gorge Nature Park

Ross River / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Ross River / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Australia

N'Dhala Gorge cuts through red sandstone 90km east of Alice Springs, its walls carrying roughly 6,000 engravings made by Eastern Arrernte ancestors across two broad phases...

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What Rock Art Site sacred sites in Australia are included?
This guide includes 10 Rock Art Site sacred sites in Australia, filtered from the Pilgrim Map atlas for stronger browsing and planning context.
Can I view these sacred sites on a map?
Yes. Use the map view to compare geographic clusters, then open individual site pages for coordinates, nearby places, and practical visiting context.
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