Eaglehawk Neck tesselated pavement
Extreme, visually impressive example of tesselated pavement that looks like an exact pavement of large bricks.
Wave Rock
Highly unusual cliff formation that resembles an enormous petrified wave. Several more such formations are in the vicinity.
Uluru (Ayers Rock)
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
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
Beautiful and impressive coastal cliffs, Ordovician and Triassic sandstone and shale.
Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga)
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.
Devil’s Marbles (Karlu Karlu)
An unusual place with rounded, giant granite boulders often standing in seemingly unstable positions.
Bungle Bungle Range
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
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
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.