What is the Aboriginal name of Wilpena Pound?
What is the Aboriginal name of Wilpena Pound?
ikara
The Aboriginal name for the pound was ikara, meaning initiation place. Pound is an English word meaning enclosure. A walk, through a narrow gorge and above Sliding Rock, is the only way to enter the Pound.
Who discovered Flinders Ranges?
There are two major national parks, Flinders Ranges National Park and Gammon Ranges National Park. Named for Matthew Flinders, the English navigator who sighted the peaks in 1802, the ranges have been mined for gold, silver, copper, lead, barite, and coal; uranium deposits exist at Mount Painter.
How tall is Wilpena?
3,842′
Wilpena Pound/Elevation
What is special about Wilpena Pound?
Wilpena Pound Resort is the only accommodation located within the Ikara Flinders Ranges National Park, 430km north of Adelaide. This extraordinary landscape is 800 million years old and has been home to Adnyamathanha people for tens of thousands of years.
What is the Dreamtime story of Wilpena Pound?
According to the tradition of the Adnyamathanha people, the indigenous inhabitants of this part of South Australia, Wilpena Pound was formed when two Dreamtime serpents travelled south and carved the landscape in their wake. It certainly is a very special place to the Adnyamathanha people,” he says.
How tall is Flinders Range?
Flinders Range/Elevation
How big is Flinders Range?
500 miles
Flinders Ranges, mountain region in South Australia, extending some 500 miles (800 km) northward from near Crystal Brook to a point between Marree and Lake Callabonna (dry), where it falls away to flat grazing land.
What animals live in Wilpena Pound?
In moister areas near Wilpena Pound, plants like grevilleas, lilies and ferns can be found. Water-loving reeds and sedges grow near springs and waterholes. Red kangaroos, western grey kangaroos and wallabies are the most common animals of the Flinders Ranges area.
What caused Flinders Ranges?
The Flinders Ranges began forming about 800 million years ago, when an ancient sea deposited sediments in a basin known as the Adelaide Geosyncline. Around 300 million years later, the basin sediments were folded into mountains during an orogeny, or mountain-building period. The mountains have since eroded.
