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Hanging Rock
South Rock Road, Woodend, Victoria 3442, Melbourne,Australia Phone: 03 5421 1468 Average Price: US$ 10 per personAbout
Hanging Rock is a great day out, a scenic one hour drive from Melbourne through the heart of the Macedon Ranges. It will take roughly forty minutes to walk up to the top of Hanging Rock but the spectacular views across the Mount Macedon region make it well worth the trip. Hanging Rock is said to be one of the best examples in the world of a volcanic feature known as a mamelon (French lit. nipple). It was formed six million years ago when a particularly stiff type of lava formed a rounded pile of layers on the surface as it was squeezed through a narrow vent in the earth. The lava in Hanging Rock has a particularly high soda content and the action of rainwater has resulted in an unusual rock known as solvsbergite, or soda trachyte, which is the same rock found at the nearby Camel's Hump on Mt. Macedon.
