Wurdi Youang is an Aboriginal stone arrangement

Aboriginal stone arrangement

Aboriginal stone arrangements are a ritual art form constructed by Indigenous Australians, and are a form of rock art. Typically, they consist of stones, each of which may be about 30 cm in size, laid out in a pattern extending over several metres or tens of metres...

 located at Mount Rothwell, near Little River, Victoria

Little River, Victoria

Little River is a town in Victoria, Australia, 51 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Wyndham and Greater Geelong. At the 2006 Census, Little River had a population of 375.-History:...

 at 37°52′30"S 144°27′28"E.

The arrangement takes the form of an irregular egg-shape or ovoid about 50m in diametre with its major axis East-West. It is composed of about 100 basalt stones, ranging from small rocks about 20cm in diameter to standing stones about 1m high—some of which appear to be supported with ‘trigger stones’—with an estimated total mass of about 23 tonnes. There are three prominent waist-high stones, at its western end, which is the highest point of the ring. Other stones, located behond the ring are claimed to mark the positions of the setting Sun at the equinoxes and solstices. The straight sides of the circle are also claimed to indicate the solstices.