Flinders Ranges & Outback SA

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Includes  Why Go? Flinders Ranges...... 794 If you want to experience the Outback (the loose geographic Mt Remarkable zone comprising 70% of mainland Australia) wheeling into National Park...... 796 the Flinders Ranges is a great way to start. Quorn...... 796 Approaching the Ranges from the south, the wheat fields Hawker...... 797 and wineries of South Australia’s midnorth district give way to arid cattle stations beneath ochre-coloured peaks. This is Flinders Ranges National Park...... 798 ancient country, imbued with the Dreaming stories of the Adnyamathanha people. Emus wander across roads; yellow- Woomera...... 801 footed rock wallabies bound from boulder to boulder. Coober Pedy...... 801 Further north on the Stuart Hwy and along the legendary Oodnadatta Track...... 805 Oodnadatta and Strzelecki Tracks, eccentric outback towns Birdsville Track...... 805 such as Woomera, William Creek, Innamincka and Coober Strzelecki Track...... 806 Pedy emerge from the heat haze. This is no country for the faint-hearted: it’s waterless, flyblown and dizzyingly hot. No Innamincka...... 806 wonder the opal miners in Coober Pedy live underground!

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