Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

 

Remarkable Rocks in the Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia

 

The Remarkable Rocks granite dome. The boardwalk was built after the 2020 fires.

 

Cape du Couedic, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia

 

View from Bunker Hill lookout

 

Flinders Chase National Park (formerly Flinders Chase) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located at the west end of Kangaroo Island about 177 kilometres (110 miles) west-south west of the state capital of Adelaide and 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of the municipal seat of Kingscote. It is a sanctuary for endangered species and home to a few geological phenomena. It was the second national park to be declared in South Australia.

 

Flinders Chase National Park consists of three sections - an area of coastal landscapes around Cape du Couedic in the south west corner of the island, the Gosse Lands in the centre of the west end of the island and the former Cape Borda Lightstation reserve in the north west corner of the island.

 

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Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

 

Kangaroos aren't the only critters you'll encounter on a trip to Kangaroo Island. Aussies have introduced rare species like koalas and platypuses to this large isle's western end ever since it was set aside as a nature reserve in 1919.

Even rarer and older—to the tune of hundreds of millions of years—this rock formation developed from an ancient volcano's cooled lava flows. Eons of erosive wind, rain, and salt spray from the Indian Ocean has left these precariously perched boulders looking as if a giant attacked them with an ice cream scoop. Still set upon the volcanic dome where they formed, the surreal stone shapes have acquired a straightforward nickname: the Remarkable Rocks.