Yankee Hat Walking Track & Rock Art

Located in Namadgi National Park, the Yankee Hat Walking Track takes you to an impressive Aboriginal rock art site. The figures at Yankee Hat were painted over a period of hundreds or possibly thousands of years. The earliest paintings are faint dark red/brown, the most recent are the well preserved white, orange and red. Carbon dating shows that Aboriginal people began using the shelter more than 800 years ago.

Some of the Yankee Hat figures represent animals but there are many abstract and human-like figures. The precise meanings of the paintings are not known but the strict conventions in style over a very long period of time indicate great cultural importance attached to the art.