SERPENTINE SECRETS
To most people, Wilpena Pound is a geological wonder — a giant amphitheatre hollowed out by time and erosion. At 17km long and 8km wide, Wilpena Pound is so large that it could fit Uluru inside its circular walls eight times over.
Located in South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges, it’s the heart of an extraordinary landscape of rugged mountain ranges and dramatic gorges that science says is at least 800 million years old. We have Reginald Sprigg’s discovery of Ediacaran fossils — the oldest multicellular life form on the planet — to help prove the timeline.
But to the Adnyamathanha (pronounced Adnamutna) Indigenous people, the Ikara-Flinders Ranges are so much more — it is where life on Earth began, and
