Uluru (Ayers Rock)

Uluru, Australia

One of the Australian symbols, enormous and visually very impressive sandstone inselberg, 348 meters high, and 9.4 km in circumference. A sacred place to local Aborigine peoples. Here are many springs, waterholes, caves, and rock art sites. Endemic plants.

The Twelve Apostles

Twelve Apostles, Australia

Group of closely located, some 50 meters high limestone stacks standing in the sea. Popular tourist attraction due to good location next to the scenic Great Ocean Road.

Shell House

Sea cliffs in Kalbarri National Park

Beautiful and impressive coastal cliffs, Ordovician and Triassic sandstone and shale.

Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga)

Kata Tjuta

Unusual, impressive monolithic rock formation, consists of 36 steep-sided domes up to 546 meters high. A sacred place to local Aboriginal people. Endemic plants.

Bungle Bungle Range

Bungle Bungles, Western Australia

An incomparable landscape created by highly unusual rock formations. The landscape is marked by up to 250 meters tall sandstone pillars and beehive structures of contrasting light orange and dark colors. Deep gorges, labyrinths. An important site for the investigation of sandstone karst processes.

The Breadknife

The Breadknife - cliff in Australia

Highly unusual cliff formation – 90 meters high volcanic dyke, approximately half a kilometre long and in some places just 4 m wide.

Ball‘s Pyramid

Ball's Pyramid

An unusual remnant of a volcano – 562 meters high and just 200 meters wide cliff rising directly from the sea. Tallest volcanic stack in the world. Up to the recent time, this was the only place in the world where the up to 15 cm long Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was living.

Dalhousie Springs

Warm spring pool, Dalhousie Springs

A group of up to 60 powerful thermal springs at the fringe of the desert. The temperature of water reaches 38 – 43 degrees C. Total discharge of all springs is around 17000 l/s. Numerous unique, relict species in this ancient ecosystem including several fish species.

Koonalda Cave

A cave richly decorated with approximately 20,000 years old drawings over area of thousands of square meters. Part of the cave flooded as the sea level rose.