Wilpena walking information
Wilpena Pound view
You and your Guide and group will visit Wilpena Pound - a natural landform known as a geosyncline that creates a significantly uplifted and folded area of land.
You will do a walk here to St Mary's Peak on Mt Ohlssen Bagge.
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Mount Ohlssen Bagge is located in Flinders Ranges National Park, this Mount offers a beautiful view of Wilpena Pound. The Flinders Ranges are made up of colourful cliffs, rugged granite peaks, sharp ridges and deep gorges. These majestic ranges house caves and significant Aboriginal cultural sites and we do various walks exploring them.
Wilpena Pound is an imposing land form is not a meteorite crater, rather it is a natural occurrence that is part of a 'geosyncline'. Sediment fills a large depression in the land is uplifted and folded by synclines and anti-cline depending on the direction of land change. At Wilpena, otherwiuse known as 'place of bent fingers' to local Aboriginal people, the earth movement has resulted in what appears to be a basin or ampitheatre but is actually two mountain ranges. It looks like and was used as a natural pen for sheep and horses by early European pioneers, however, droughts, lack of viable rainfall and fertile land has resulted in sparse stocking of animals and tourism taking over as the main industry in the area.
