Three Sisters (Blue Mountains)

The Three Sisters is a formation of three sandstone peaks, named Meehni, Wimlah and Gunnedoo and standing between about 906 and 922 meters, on the northern escarpment of the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, near the town of Katoomba. The peaks were shaped by erosion, as wind, rain and rivers wore down the surrounding sandstone landscape over roughly 200 million years since the Triassic period. A commonly told Dreamtime story says three sisters were turned to stone to protect them from a forbidden tribal conflict, though the tale may actually trace to a twentieth century schoolgirl who gave the peaks their present names, and the local Gundungurra people hold a different traditional account of the site.