Sawn Rocks
Australia / Narrabri, New South Wales
Location ID: #16110
Located 550km north-west of Sydney within the Mt Kaputar National Park, Sawn Rocks is a unique 40 metre basalt cliff face featuring perpendicular octagonal shaped rocks, resembling a giant series of organ pipes.
Over thousands of years, some of the enormous slabs of rock have fallen to the bed of Bobiwaa Creek below, resembling the crumbled pillars of an ancient or Roman temple. Torrents of water over the ensuring years have eroded loose dirt to expose Sawn Rocks. Amongst the clear rock pools and the smooth rock bed of the creek at the base of the formation, the rock is fractured into octagonal shapes identical to the cliff face. It is believed that these plunge a further 60 metres into the earth below.