Global InformationWalga Rock information
| Walga Rock | |
|---|---|
| Walganna Rock, Walgahna Rock | |
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| Highest point | |
| Coordinates | 27°24′01″S 117°28′08″E / 27.4002743°S 117.4688244°E |
| Naming | |
| English translation | Blood that comes from the Kangaroo[1] |
| Geography | |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | Western Australia |
| Region | Mid West |
| Shire | Shire of Cue |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Granite whaleback[2]: 46 |
| Type of rock | K-feldspar porphyritic monzogranite[2]: 46 |
Western Australia Heritage Register | |
| Official name | Walga Rock |
| Type | Municipal Inventory |
| Designated | 28 November 1996 |
| Reference no. | 6591 |
| Municipality | Shire of Cue |
Walga Rock, also known as Walgahna Rock and Walganna Rock, is a granite monolith situated about 48 kilometres (30 mi) west of Cue, Western Australia,[2]: 46 [3] within the Austin Downs pastoral lease.[4] It is one of the largest granite monoliths in Australia.[1]
It is of profound cultural significance to Aboriginal people; the Wajarri elders are the acknowledged traditional owners.[5] An extensive gallery of Aboriginal art exists within a cave in Walga Rock.[2]: 46 [3][6] While it is the subject of a great deal of research and fieldwork subsequent to a detailed examination conducted in the 1930s by the American anthropologist D. S. Davidson (who considered it to be "one of the most extensive galleries so far reported in Australia"), the first known European record of Walga is by Daisy Bates. Though she did not visit the rock and its gallery when travelling through the region in 1908, "Walga" is marked near the mining towns of Cue and Day Dawn and many other sites of Aboriginal significance on sketch Map 19 held at the State Library of Western Australia as part of her Special Map Collection.
- ^ a b Lewis, Christopher (15 August 2016). "WA's largest Aboriginal rock art gallery hopes to attract tourists, create jobs". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Western Australia. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d Van Kranendonk, MJ; Ivanic, TJ; Wyche, S; Wilde, SA; Zibra, I (2010). A time transect through the Hadean to Neoarchean geology of the western Yilgarn Craton – a field guide (PDF) (Report). East Perth, Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Aboriginal Art – Walga Rock". Shire of Cue. 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ "Walga Rock". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia.
- ^ "Agreement to return Walga Rock to the custodial care of its traditional owners". The Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements database (ATNS). 11 July 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ "Aboriginal Sites – Western Australia: Walga Rock, East Murchison region". Australia For Everyone. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2021.