... Great new National Park postcard and a favourite Outback destinations in Australia... it includes some of the most dramatic mountain scenery... Wilpena is a major tourist hotspot at Flinders... it is a spiritual place and ancient meeting place of the park’s traditional owners, the Adnyamathanha people... the Pound is a very popular area for bushwalking... there are numerous scenic routes, gorges, walking and bushwalking trails, and a variety of wildlife can be seen... with nice Wilpena Pound postmark... Thanks ??ヽ(ヅ)ノ
The Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park is situated approximately 400 km north of Adelaide in the northern central part of South Australia's largest mountain range, the Flinders Ranges and covers an area of 912 km².
The park's most characteristic landmark is Wilpena Pound, a large, sickle-shaped, natural amphitheatre covering nearly 80 km², containing the range's highest peak, St Mary Peak (1,170 metres). Wilpena Pound looks very much like the crater of an extinct volcano or a depression caused by a massive meteor strike, but it is in fact the product of millions of years of geologic pressures and erosion.
On 12 February 2016 the park was renamed to include the Adnyamathanha word, Ikara, "meeting place", referring to the traditional name for Wilpena Pound.
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