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Exploring South Australia

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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today.
- Australia Notebook

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PLACES

Adelaide
Flinders Ranges

GEOGRAPHY

South Australia is Australia's third-largest state covering 984,400 square kilometers (380,000 square miles). The majority of the state's population live in Adelaide.

GEOLOGY

South Australia's Eyre Peninsula is home to the oldest rocks on the planet. Geoscience Australia used a specialised microprobe known as the SHRIMP to identify rocks that are more than 3 billion years old.

Eyre Peninsula older than previously thought - ABC
Eyre Peninsula

COORONG

The Coorong is one of Australia's most fragile wetlands - a narrow lagoon that runs parallel to the South Australian coast a couple of hours' drive south of Adelaide. Be a guest of the Ngarrindjeri people, the traditional custodians of these places for more than 6,000 years.

Coorong Wetlands
Coorong District Council
Lakes and Coorong Fishery
Coorong National Park - Wikipedia
The Cry of the Coorong - ABC
Cry of the Coorong (PDF)

KANGAROO ISLAND

Half the bushland remains just as it was when British navigator Matthew Flinders named the island in 1802. Separated from the South Australian coast about 10,000 years ago, the island is devoid of dingoes and introduced foxes and rabbits. This means the island's wildlife has flourished. Native wildlife include echidnas, platypus, goannas, wallabies and kangaroos. More than one-third of the Island lies in a National or Conservation Park.

Seal Bay Conservation Park is home to Australian sea lions, among the world's rarest marine mammals, with only 10,000 to 12,000 remaining and about 5 per cent of them making a home among the dunes of this sheltered bay.

Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island O.K. Map (PDF)