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Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve

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Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve is a small, 6ha reserve protecting rock engravings which are a valuable link to the activities of early Arrernte Aboriginal people.

Here outcrops of soft sandstone beside a small claypan form natural galleries for petroglyphs featuring a great variety of symbols or motifs.

Much of the meaning of the petroglyphs, according to senior Arrernte custodians, is sacred and too dangerous to reveal to people not initiated into Aboriginal law.

Arrernte custodians are happy for people to visit the site but ask that they don't climb over the rocks, touch or interfere with the petroglyphs in any way. Any interference can attract heavy fines. The Aboriginal custodians ask that Arrernte women do not enter this site.

Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation

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Getting There: The Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve is 39km south of Alice Springs on the unsealed Old South Road. The road is generally suitable for conventional 2WD vehicles, however it can become impassable after rain.

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39 kilometres south of Alice Springs
via Old South Road
Alice Springs NT
Australia

Getting ThereThe Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve is 39km south of Alice Springs on the unsealed Old South Road. The road is generally suitable for conventional 2WD vehicles, however it can become impassable after rain.