Australian aborigines called the Devil boulders Carla Carla (Karlu Karlu). These huge round boulders of red granite are located amidst beautiful landscape. The diameter of these boulders can be from 50 cm to 60 m in cross section. Some are very bizarre way, balancing one another. Diabolical boulders formed millions of years ago when molten magma was under the sandstone and cooled to form granite.
Years, and environmental factors have caused erosion, so today we can observe these amazing natural phenomena. For the Australian Aboriginal the Devil boulders have special spiritual significance.
The area is located near Wauchope, approximately 114 km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners. The ‘Devils Marbles’ or ‘Karlu Karlu’ with its gigantic, rounded granite boulders, some spectacularly poised, is a remarkable landscape. Scattered clusters of these ‘marbles’, including many balancing rocks, are spread across a wide, shallow valley. The Devils Marbles is a nationally and internationally recognised symbol of Australia’s outback.
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