Kariong Rifle Range Emu

Summary: Large emu on a small rock located in the scrub near the Kariong Rifle Range.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Emu
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 160 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind 6(8) 1966 Sheet 2, Fig E

Hidden in thick scrub near the Kariong Rifle Range on the Central Coast is a large, solitary emu. It was first recorded by Ian Sim in the 1960s, and later by McCarthy:

Poorly shaped fat bodied emu, in a feeding pose, with its head down and body parallel with the ground – short neck with pointed beak, no eyes, broad humped body and rounded rump, convex belly, incurved leg bifurcated at the end.

1X3A5438 LR Kariong Rifle Range Emu

The emu has fairly deep grooves, and takes up most of the small rock platform.

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1X3A5426 LR Kariong Rifle Range Emu
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