Challenger Snake engraving

Summary: The Challenger Snake is an Aboriginal engraving of a faint and weathered snake, near the Challenger Track.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Snake
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1898
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell
  • Campbell Reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 2 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 102 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

On a “bold ledge of hard ferruginous sandstone” is the Challenger Snake Aboriginal engraving. First described by W.D. Campbell in 1898, the snake is described as having a “long, thin body with pointed ends, very faint and weathered in an exposed position”.

AWAT9803 LR Challenger Snake engraving
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