Remarkable Rocks & Admirals Arch Walk
Explore the southwestern tip of Kangaroo Island — Flinders Chase National Park contains the Remarkable Rocks (granite boulders sculpted by 500 million years of weather on a clifftop above the Southern Ocean) and Admirals Arch (a natural rock arch colonised by fur seals).
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Remarkable Rocks
The Remarkable Rocks are a collection of weathered granite boulders perched on a domed granite platform 75 metres above the Southern Ocean — the wind and salt spray have sculpted the orange-lichened boulders into dramatic overhanging forms over 500 million years.
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Cape du Couedic Lighthouse
Cape du Couedic Lighthouse (1909) stands at the most remote point of Kangaroo Island — the restored keeper's cottages provide accommodation, and the lighthouse warns ships away from the dramatic cliffs where the Southern Ocean crashes against the island's southwestern corner.
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Admirals Arch
Admirals Arch is a natural rock arch at the base of the Cape du Couedic cliffs — the boardwalk descends to the arch where a large colony of New Zealand fur seals basks on the rocks below, with young seals playing in the surge channels.
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Kirkpatrick Point Walk
The walk between Admirals Arch and Remarkable Rocks follows the clifftop above the Southern Ocean — the clifftop vegetation of coastal heath, the constant wind, and the views to the empty ocean horizon give the landscape a wild, edge-of-the-world feeling.
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Flinders Chase Visitor Centre
Flinders Chase National Park Visitor Centre provides context for the park's geology, wildlife, and the devastating 2019-20 bushfires that burned half the island — the recovery of the park's koala, echidna, and platypus populations since the fires has been remarkable.
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Rocky River Campground Platypus
Rocky River at Flinders Chase is one of the most reliable places in Australia to see wild platypus — the animals feed at dawn and dusk in the calm river pools beside the campground, undisturbed by the island's isolation from mainland predators.