The Granite Wave of Western Australia

Wave Rock is a natural formation shaped like a breaking ocean wave near Hyden, Western Australia. Granite doing its best surf impression.

This granite inselberg lies about 3 km east of Hyden. Geomorphologists classify the concave bedrock surface as a flared slope.

Wave Rock stands about 15 m high and stretches around 110 m long. Chemical weathering by groundwater carved the pocket. Groundwater is a slow sculptor.

Ballardong people call the site Katter Kich. Local tribes believed the Rainbow Serpent created it by dragging her body across the land.

A wall above Wave Rock funnels rainwater into a dam built in December 1928 by the Public Works Department. The Public Works Department, harvesting puddles.

Wave Rock formed in ancient granite bedrock.

A wall above Wave Rock changed its colour over time. More than 100,000 tourists visit every year.

Wave Rock and Hyden Rock sit inside a one hundred sixty hectare nature reserve called Hyden Wildlife Park.