Basin Track Shark

Summary: Speared shark (partly damaged) above the Basin Track on a low rock platform.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Shark
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of art: Good, Partially Destroyed
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1961

Just beside the Basin Track on sloping rock platform is a large shark, which has been speared. It’s currently about 5.25m long, but was originally longer. Widening of the Basin Track in 1975 damaged part of the engraving when the rock was cut.

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What remains of the speared shark is fairly distinct, although one of the shark’s fins is covered by moss.

  • AWAT4633 LR Basin Track Shark
  • montage stitch LR Basin Track Shark
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Aboriginal Rock Art in the Greater Blue Mountains
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