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8 unusual facts about Flinders Ranges


Balcoracania

The genus name is derived from Balcoracana Creek in the Flinders Ranges, one of the sites where fossils of Balcoracania were collected.

Craigmore Christian School

All students in years 3-12 attend camps in various Australian locations such as Wellington, Wirraway Homestead, Port Hughes, Flinders Ranges, Kangaroo Island, Canberra, Victor Harbor and Aldinga Beach.

Earl of Carysfort

Hugh Proby, third son of the third Earl, was the founder of Kanyaka Station in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.

Emuella

E. dalgarnoi is named after R.C. Dalgarno, who discovered Balcoracania dailyi in the Flinders Ranges, near Blinman, South Australia.

Florence May Harding

In this role she was adept as organiser, researcher, librarian, and speaker at Club meetings, as well as leading numerous field excursions, both within the district and further, such as the Flinders Ranges.

Hans Heysen

Heysen also produced images of men and animals toiling in the Australian bush, as well as groundbreaking depictions of arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges.

S. T. Gill

With public interest in the new medium not forthcoming, Gill sold his camera to Robert Hall prior to his departure with John Horrocks' expedition northwards to the Flinders Ranges later in 1846.

Horrocks, the first settler of South Australia's Clare Valley, mounted a small expedition to search for suitable farming land in the country northwest of Mount Arden in the southern Flinders Ranges.


Akurra

In the mythology of the Aboriginal people of South Australia (specifically, the Adnyamathanha people from the Flinders Ranges, Akurra is a great snake deity, sometimes associated with the Rainbow Serpent.

Edeowie glass

Edeowie glass is a slag-like, opaque rare natural glass found as vesicular or in sheet-like masses in a semi-continuous swath in baked sediment, about 55 km long and 10 km wide along the western side of the Flinders Ranges near Parachilna, South Australia and Lake Torrens.

Solanum centrale

The fruit are grown by Amata and Mimili communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands, by the Dinahline community near Ceduna, by the Nepabunna community in the northern Flinders Ranges, and on the Tangglun Piltengi Yunti farm in Murray Bridge, and are marketed by Outback Pride.


see also

Brown-headed Honeyeater

The Brown-headed Honeyeater ranges from central-southern Queensland, down through central and eastern New South Wales (though generally west of the Great Dividing Range), across Victoria and into eastern South Australia, where it is found in the Flinders Ranges and around the lower Murray River region.

Ediacara

The Ediacara Hills are a small outlier of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

John McDouall Stuart

From the Flinders Ranges, Stuart travelled west, passing to the south of Lake Torrens, then north along the western edge of Lake Torrens.

Kanyaka

Kanyaka Station, an abandoned cattle station in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Tirari-Sturt stony desert

The region is home to a variety of wildlife that has adapted to the hot dry conditions including the Wedge-tailed Eagles, Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby and Western Gray Kangaroos of the Flinders Ranges.