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Sydney’s collapsing rock formation: $300 fines ignored

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 09, 2026
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By Philip Terry Graham - Own work, CC BY 2.0, Link

Wedding Cake Rock is a sandstone formation in Sydney’s Royal National Park that looks exactly like a slice of wedding cake — white, layered, and improbably cuboid. It sits 25 metres above the Tasman Sea. According to Wikipedia, monthly visitors to the coastal trail jumped from 2,000 to over 10,000 in ear…

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