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Hanging Rock Reserve

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Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Hanging Rock Reserve
Phone:
+61 3 5421 1468

Address:
South Rock Road, Woodend, Victoria 3442, Australia

Hanging Rock is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia. A former volcano, it lies 718m above sea level on the plain between the two small townships of Newham and Hesket, approximately 70 km north-west of Melbourne and a few kilometres north of Mount Macedon. In the middle of the 19th century, the traditional occupants of the place – tribes of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung and Taungurung – were forced from it. They had been its occupants for, potentially, thousands of years and, colonisation notwithstanding, have continued to maintain cultural and spiritual connections with the place.To the settler colonialist society, Hanging Rock became a place for recreation and tourism. It came alternately under private, government, and mixed public-private control.In the late 20th century, the area became very widely known as the setting of Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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