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Australia's largest collection of standing stones is said to be at Murujuga, also known as the Burrup Peninsula or the Dampier Archipelago, in Western Australia, which includes tall standing stones similar to the European menhirs, as well as circular stone arrangements. Part of the Yirrkala stone arrangement representing a Macassan fishing boat
The Lake Bolac stone arrangement, also known as the Kuyang stone arrangement, is an Aboriginal ceremonial site near the town of Lake Bolac in the Western District, north-east of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. [1] It is one of several Aboriginal stone arrangements scattered across Australia.
Eneabba Stone Arrangement is the name given to a registration on the Western Australia's Register of Aboriginal Sites. [1] The arrangement is listed as being at , about twelve kilometres (7.5 miles) east of the coastal town of Leeman, Western Australia. While the Western Australian Register of Aboriginal Sites lists it as Site Number S01963 ...
The Ring of Stones, Uren 1940:opp. p.30. The Ring of Stones, also known as the Circle of Stones, is a stone arrangement which may have been constructed by some of the 68 marooned passengers and crew from the Vergulde Draak, a ship of the Dutch East India Company that was wrecked in 1656 about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of today's Perth, Western Australia.
Esperance Stonehenge is a full-sized replica of Stonehenge, in Esperance, Western Australia. It was built from 137 locally quarried stones of up to 50 tonnes (55 tons), and is aligned to the summer and winter solstices. [1] It is designed to be a copy of the original, intact Stonehenge from c. 2000 BC, rather than the currently extant ruins. [2]
Granite outcrops of Western Australia are weathered landforms that occur throughout the state of Western Australia, composed primarily of the rock type granite. All recognised types of this landform can be observed, commonly as bornhardts , but also as inselbergs , castle koppies and nubbins .
Strictly speaking, Australian place names are gazetted in capital letters only; the names in this list have been converted to mixed case in accordance with normal capitalisation conventions. Locations are as gazetted; some large rock formations may extend over large areas. See List of rocks in Western Australia for more.
Stone Wall is an escarpment overlooking the Murchison River Gorge about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-east of Kalbarri in Mid West Western Australia.It is of geological interest because it provides outstanding exposures of five Cretaceous formations unconformably overlying the Ordovician Tumblagooda sandstone.