The peaks
Red and orange.
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Wilpena Pound is a huge natural amphitheatre of mountains at the heart of Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, about 429 km north of Adelaide in South Australia. Its Adnyamathanha name is Ikara. Early amateurs thought it was a volcanic crater, but it is in fact a folded synclinal basin ringed by rock layers bent up by earth movements. It was used for grazing from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century and for cropping in the early 20th century, and its tourism value was recognised in 1949. A sealed road between Hawker and Blinman reaches it. You see a ring of red and orange peaks around a wide plain, and a red dirt road running towards the mountains. Grass trees and golden grasses cover the slopes, gum trees line dry creek beds, and the rock glows at sunset. It is about 39 km from the town of Hawker in a straight line. The Razorback and Stokes Hill lookouts give the best views, and walks into the Pound take hours.
Red and orange.
Red dirt.
On the slopes.
Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia
No, it is a folded rock basin raised by earth movements.
Ikara, in the Adnyamathanha language.