There are many Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney and around Sydney Harbour – although the sites are now isolated from their natural environment. Fewer sites have survived in Sydney’s south, due to development and erosion from weather and foot traffic.
An engraving of a whale around six metres in length, within the tail of which there is faded, but just-visible man.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of engravings: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Located along the popular Spit to Manly bushwalk, the Grotto Point Aboriginal Site included boomerangs, fish, sharks and a large kangaroo. The engravings are about 1,000 years old and have interpretative signage.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of engravings: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
A very weathered engraving of a whale and its calf, on the headland at La Perouse.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of engravings: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, R.H. Mathews
- View site sketch