Flinders Ranges National Park

The Flinders Ranges National Park  is located in the Australian state of South Australia . The national park is named after Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), the captain of the Royal Navy which large parts of southern Australia has explored.

General
Flinders Ranges National Park covers 912 square kilometers and is part of the mountain range the Flinders Ranges. The national park is situated at the junction of the South and the North Flinders Ranges Flinders Ranges. The landscape consists mainly of mulga scrub with red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) as one of the prominent representatives of the local flora.

Wilpena Pound
The most characteristic point in Flinders Ranges National Park Wilpena Pound, a synform (a crescent-shaped rock formation). Saint Mary Peak, at 1170 meters the highest point of the Flinders Ranges, is part of the Wilpena Pound.

Fauna
Flinders Ranges National Park is one of the last areas where the yellow-footed rock kangaroo (Petrogale xanthopus) are commonly found. Since the time dingoes have disappeared from the park and there are permanent wells built for livestock, numbers of the of the giant red kangaroo (Macropos rufus), the Western Grey Kangaroo(Macropus fuligonosus) and wallaroo (Macropus robustus) increased. The woylie (Bettongia penicillata) has long been extinct in this national park, but this little kangaroo at the beginning of the twenty-first century reintroduced. Other notable species in Flinders Ranges National Park include the emu (Dromaieus nova hollandia), the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) and Goulds monitor lizard (Varanus gouldii).