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Photo gallery: Flinders Ranges

New Flinders Ranges photo gallery

This page is fairly popular so on 2003/04/13 I created a new gallery for anyone to contribute to. If you have exceptional photos of the Flinders Ranges, I'd like to include them. Hopefully this new Internet site will become a collection of all the best photos of the beautiful Flinders Ranges. See Flinders Gallery and pass the word.
Very curious emus, Flinders Ranges, S. Australia This page provides a selection of photographs from South Australia's Flinders Ranges: a unique area that combines interesting and beautiful landforms with fascinating native fauna and flora. The traveler can indulge in walks of up to several day's duration, perhaps climbing peaks that offer wonderful views, or if less energetic can tour by road.

Created about Mid 2002, modified 2004/08/08
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These emus at Rawnsley Park were very curious. If my wife and I sat on the ground for a break from walking the emus would come close for a look.

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The Flinders Ranges

Near Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, S. Australia The Flinders Ranges are an extension of the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia.

The rocks which make up the greater part of both Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges date from late Precambrian to early Cambrian. The fossils that can be found are of very primitive life-forms. A paleontologically very significant group of fossil animals is preserved in the Flinders Ranges, called the Ediacaran Fauna. They lived a little before the great explosion of multicellular life at the beginning of the Cambrian Period.

Wilpena Pound, in the background of this photo, is one of the most picturesque parts of the Flinders Ranges.

On the Ulowdna Range
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An evening walk along a trail on the Ulowdna Range, near Rawnsley Park.

Cliffs on eastern side of Rawnsley's Bluff, S. Australia A yacka on the northeastern wall of Wilpena pound, Flinders Ranges, S. Australia Left
On the southeastern-most extremity of Wilpena Pound is Rawnsley's Bluff.

These cliffs, with their Callitris (native cypress pine) trees, are on the face of Rawnsley's Bluff. There is a well marked walking trail from near Rawnsley Park (about 35km north of Hawker and 20km south of Wilpena) up to the top of Rawnsley Bluff.

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A yacka (Xanthorrhoea) close to the trail up St. Mary's Peak.

On top of St Mary's Peak, Wilpena pound, Flinders Ranges, S. Australia My family and I once camped on top of St Mary's Peak overnight. It was cold, windy, and there was the occasional thundery shower, but the 270 degree rainbow and the shadow of the mountain climbing into the air as the sun went down made it all very worthwhile.

We had to find crevasses between the rocks and each of us slept in our own little hole.

I've been to the top of St. Mary's Peak at least eight times. The view is stunning, as good as the best in the world, I believe. It's a fairly long and strenuous climb, but if you haven't climbed St. Mary's Peak you haven't seen the Flinders Ranges.

The Rawnsley Park dam, Flinders Ranges, S. Australia
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Although the relative aridity of the Flinders Ranges is a part of their attraction, a patch of open water makes a very refreshing change; especially when it comes with water birds.

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