The Australian Women's Weekly

Otherworldly wonder

There is nowhere on Earth like the Flinders Ranges. Rainbow-striped mountains zig-zag out of a vast, sunstruck desert plane; ancient river red gums spread their roots along the banks of perfectly clear, silvery streams; leafy, green microclimates shelter a stone’s throw from barren, rocky gorges. There is something altogether otherworldly about this place.

But it’s not just the stop-you-in-your-tracks beauty of the Flinders Ranges that makes it unique. This 600-million-year-old landscape was described by geologist and

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