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Flinders Ranges and Outback | South Australia

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Flinders Ranges in the Australian Outback is renowned for its rugged mountain scenery, deep gorges and tranquil valleys, this is a land of legends, telling tales of adventure, hardship, success and failure. Located north of Adelaide, the ancient landscape of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia has constantly been reshaped over the ages, granite, dating to 600 million years, has been found.

The superb Brachina Gorge offers up secrets of its geological history. Seashell remains have been found in the midst of rocky inland deserts and there are remnants of fossilised palm trees. The walls of the gorge at Mount Billy Creek have fossils embedded in them, meaning this area was once an ancient seabed.

For more than 40 000 years Aboriginal people lived in this area; ceremonial grounds, cave paintings and carvings testify to their cultural and spiritual links with the land.

There are a great many natural attractions to explore in this SA region, including vast salt lakes, historic mining areas, rock formations, gorges and picturesque waterholes and a range of flora and fauna, some of it rare.

Accommodation, tours and attractions can be found at Coober Pedy, Hawker, Port Augusta, Quorn and Roxby Downs. The Flinders Ranges are a must see destination for Australian travellers and four wheel drive adventurers with no shortage of desert tracks, off road challenges and outback characters.

Tourist info

Wadlata Outback Centre/Flinders Ranges and Outback Interpretive Centre

  • 41 Flinders Tce,
    Port Augusta, SA 5700
  • Ph: (08) 8641 0793
  • email: wadlata@portaugusta.sa.gov.au
 

Parks/Reserves

  • Flinders Ranges NP
  • Lake Eyre NP

latest stories

Central Australia here we come!

Sunrise at Coward Springs LonghornYOUniqueTours | 2010-10-13 | Journey from Melbourne to Central Australia via the Flinders Ranges, Oodnodatta Track, Lake Eyre and Coober Pedy. | read more

Activities, Itinerary and Accommodation in the Flinders Ranges

Cycling the Mawson Trail from Adelaide to Blinman in the Flinders Ranges SouthAustralia | 2009-09-29 | There are three national parks in the Flinders Ranges. There's a great selection accommodation and many things to see and do for the visiting traveller to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. | read more

Flinders Ranges

Magnificent Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, SA SouthAustralia | 2009-09-29 | There are three national parks in the Flinders Ranges. They are Mount Remarkable National Park, Flinders Ranges National Park and Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park. Together they cover 95,000 hectares, popular accommodation options include the tourist town of Hawker, SA. | read more

Coward Springs

naturalwanders | 2008-01-31 | Our destination for the day was Coward Spring, a mound spring in the middle of the desert. | read more

 

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Main Attractions

  • Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary
  • Flinders Ranges National Park
  • Gammon Ranges National Park
  • Wilpena Pound
  • Coober Pedy
  • William Creek Hotel
  • Pichi Richi Railway
  • Birdsville Track
  • Iga Warta

editors picks

Central Australia here we come!

Sunrise at Coward Springs LonghornYOUniqueTours | 2010-10-13 | Journey from Melbourne to Central Australia via the Flinders Ranges, Oodnodatta Track, Lake Eyre and Coober Pedy. | read more

William Creek

naturalwanders | 2009-06-30 | William Creek heralds itself as the smallest town in Australia. | read more

Coober Pedy

naturalwanders | 2008-01-31 | Just past William Creek is the turnoff for Coober Pedy. We cruised on, taking care on the road as it was very patchy in sections. When driving these tracks, one should take extra care at creek crossings and floodways as the surface can be quiet rough. | read more

Coober Pedy to Port Augusta

naturalwanders | 2008-01-31 | From Coober Pedy, we headed south on the Stuart Highway, back to Pt. Augusta. | read more

Coward Springs

naturalwanders | 2008-01-31 | Our destination for the day was Coward Spring, a mound spring in the middle of the desert. | read more

 

 

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