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Jilakin Rock is a granite rock formation located approximately east of
Jilakin Rock is a granite rock formation located approximately east of Kulin Kulin may refer to:
Places
*Kulin, Western Australia, a small town in Australia
** Shire of Kulin, a local government area
*Kulin, Iran, a village near Tehran
*Kulin, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, a village in south-west Poland
*Kulin, Kuyavian-Pome ...
and approximately south of Kondinin in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It overlooks Jilakin Lake and is a prominent feature in the area, rising out of the surrounding flat plains.
The rock is an inselberg and is situated in the south western part of the Yilgarn Craton.
The town of Kulin was gazetted as Jilakin in 1913, but the name was changed in 1914 when the railway to the town was completed.
There is a parking area and picnic tables at the base of the rock but no camping is permitted.
The site is home to a stand of jarrah
''Eucalyptus marginata'', commonly known as jarrah, djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with roug ...
trees at the base of the rock. They are the most isolated natural jarrah trees known, and are around east of the main jarrah belt. They survive on water that runs off the rock and quarry soils at the base of the rock. The trees were the reason the area was declared as an A Class Reserve in 1914 so that cutting of timber was prohibited. Other vegetation found to the eastern side of the site include: ''Eucalyptus transcontinentalis
''Eucalyptus transcontinentalis'', commonly known as redwood or boongul, is a species of small to medium-sized tree, sometimes a Mallet (habit), mallet, that is Endemism , endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance- ...
'', '' Eucalyptus subangusta'' with patches of '' Eucalyptus salmonophloia'' and ''Eucalyptus salubris
''Eucalyptus salubris'', commonly known as gimlet, fluted gum tree, gimlet gum and silver-topped gimlet, is a species of mallet that is endemic to low-rainfall areas of the wheatbelt and goldfields regions of Western Australia.
Description
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The Noongar believe that the trees had grown as the result of two groups of Aboriginal people driving their spears into the ground when they met as a sign of friendship; the spears sprouted and grew as jarrah trees.
The area around the rock is also the home of the Blazing Swan
Blazing Swan is an annual regional Burning Man event held near Jilakin Lake in the Shire of Kulin, Western Australia. It is an experiment in temporary community and artistic expression, and is guided by eleven main principles, including ''radical ...
, an annual Burning Man
Burning Man is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance held annually in the western United States. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred ...
event that has been held in the area since 2014 at Easter time, attracting around 2,500 attendees.
The rock is part of a dreaming trail that extends from the south coast near Augusta to the Great Victoria Desert country to the north east. Other features along the trail include Mulka's Cave
The Humps is a granite rock formation known as a "stepped bornhardt inselberg". It is located within The Humps Nature Reserve approximately east of Perth and north east of Hyden, Western Australia, Hyden in the eastern Wheatbelt (Western Au ...
, Wave Rock
Wave Rock ( nys, Katter Kich) is a natural rock formation that is shaped like a tall breaking Wind wave, ocean wave. The "wave" is about high and around long. It forms the north side of a solitary hill, which is known as "Hyden Rock". This ...
, Puntapin Rock
Puntapin Rock is a granite rock formation located approximately south east of Wagin, Western Australia, Wagin and approximately west of Dumbleyung, Western Australia, Dumbleyung in the western Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt region ...
, Jitarning Rock and Dumbleyung Lake
Dumbleyung Lake, also widely known as Lake Dumbleyung, is a salt lake (geography), salt lake in the Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern region of Western Australia. The lake has a length of and a width of ; it covers a total area ...
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See also
*Granite outcrops of Western Australia
Granite outcrops of Western Australia are weathered landforms that occur throughout the state of Western Australia, composed primarily of the rock type granite. All recognised types of this landform can be observed, commonly as bornhardts, but a ...
References
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