Mount Remarkable is a national park in South Australia (Australia), 238 km north of Adelaide.
Edward John Eyre named Mount Remarkable in June 1840. The Nukunu people, who called Mount Remarkable "Wangyarra", ("arra" meaning running water) inhabited the area before the arrival of European settlers in 1844.
Lincoln is a national park in South Australia (Australia), 249 km west of Adelaide. It occupies the Jussieu Peninsula and a number of nearby islands. The Barngala and Nauo people lived in the region before the arrival of European settlers. Cape Donington at the northern tip of the park recorded its first grain crop in 1875. Other activities in that area included woodcutting, grazing and guano mining. Donington Cottage remains and can be rented for a nightly fee. Additional structures in the park include a lighthouse, ranger's quarters and a water pipeline.
Flinders Chase is a national park on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 213 km southwest of Adelaide. It is a sanctuary for endangered species and home to a few geological phenomena.
Flinders Chase is composed of a group of protected areas at the western end of Kangaroo Island. It includes coastal landscapes, Cape du Couedic, Rocky River in the southwest, the Gosse Lands in the northeast and Cape Borda lightstation in the northwest. The park is located 110 km west of Kingscote, the island's largest town.
1.Sureface
-73 103 ha
2. Walking Tracks
A number of walking tracks lead from the roat to the coast, varing from a short nature train to long walks along the cliff tops, to natural caverns, along river banks, through forests and scrublands.
3.Fauna and flora
The most commonly seen mammals are the kangaroo Island kangaroo, tammar wallaby,echidna,brushtailed possum, short-nosed bandicoot,koala, Australian sea lion and the New Zealand fur seal.Gould's sand goanna, black tiger snakes and copperheads may be seen.
The Coorong is a national park and lagoon ecosystem in South Australia, 156 km southeast of Adelaide. Its name is thought to be a corruption of the local Aboriginal people's word kurangh, meaning "long neck"; a reference to the shape of the lagoon system. The name is also thought to be from the Aboriginal word Coorang, "sand dune", a reference to the sand dunes that can be seen between the park and the Southern Ocean.
1.Climate
The park has warm summers and cool, wet winters.Visit in spring, summer and autumn.
2.Sureface
-38 984 ha
3.Flora and fauna
Western grey kangaroos and red-necked wallabies are often seen on the mainland,but the main attraction is the prolific coastal bird life. This includes grey teal, chestnut teal, mountain ducks, black swans, spoonbills, ibises, cormorants and grebes.Australian pelicans, terns and seagulls have established large breeding colonies on the islands where up to 4000 pelicans can be seen in good seasons.Many land birds occur in the dunes, including the orange-bellied parrot,singing honeyeater and bronze-wing pigeon.
Spinifex,sea spurge,marram grass and two-horned sea rockets bind the sand of the foredunes, with coastal wattles,mallees and sandhill daisies on the consolidated dunes.Tea--trees, samphires,swampy paperbarks,banksias and grass-tress surround the lagoons.
