Yankee Hat Walking Track & Rock Art 

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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.

Further Information

• To see the art works begin on the Yankee Hat Walking Track, this is an easy, 6 km return stroll. From the car park at the locked gate on the Boboyan Road, the track heads north through expansive grasslands and past mobs of Eastern Grey Kangaroos. It then veers west, skirting around Bogong Swamp and ends at the Yankee Hat Aboriginal Rock Art site.

Please Note

• The Yankee Hat rock art is vulnerable. Make sure that you do not touch the art or the rock surface because the oils from your skin will damage the painting. All Aboriginal sites and artefacts in the ACT are protected by law to ensure their long-term survival

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