rock-shelter

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a natural cave-dwellingof the aborigines. See Gibber-Gunyah.

1891. R. Etheridge, jun., in `Records of the AustralianMuseum,' vol. i. No. viii. p. 171 (`Notes on RockShelters or Gibba-gunyahs at Deewhy Lagoon'):

«. . . The Shelters are of the usual type seen throughout thePort Jackson district, recesses in the escarpment, overhung bythick, more or less tabular masses of rock, in some cases dryand habitable, in others wet and apparently never used by theAborigines.»

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