Pipeline Trail Kangaroo

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a large kangaroo near the Pipeline Trail in Popran NP.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1977
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection 6/21
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 6/21 (Mangrove Mountain – Mount Olive) p.47

An Aboriginal engraving of a large kangaroo along the Pipeline Trail in Popran National Park. It was documented by Ian Sim as part of The Sim Collection.

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The kangaroo is quite deeply carved but hard to see on the white sandstone; its head contains multiple pits.

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