Hanging Rock (Ngannelong) | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 718 m (2,356 ft)[1]AHD |
Prominence | 105 metres (344 ft) above plain[1] |
Coordinates | 37°19′49″S 144°35′42″E / 37.330222°S 144.595083°E |
Geography | |
Victoria, Australia | |
Parent range | Macedon |
Geology | |
Age of rock | 6.25 million years |
Mountain type | Mamelon |
Hanging Rock[2] (also known as Dryden's Mount[3] or Dryden's Rock,[4] and to some Aboriginal Australians as Ngannelong[5]) is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia. A former volcano, it lies 718 m above sea level (105 m above plain 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 original occupants of the place—tribes of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Woi Wurrung and Taungurung—were forced from it.[6] They had been its occupants for thousands of years[7] and, colonisation notwithstanding, continue to maintain cultural and spiritual connections to it.[5]
In the late 20th century, the area became widely known as the setting of Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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