Everard Ranges
27°06′36″S 132°32′56″E / 27.109934°S 132.548864°E The Everard Ranges, officially known as The Everard Ranges, is a range of low rounded
Giles described them in his book, Australia Twice Traversed as follows:[citation needed]
"Arriving at the first hills of the Everard, I found they were all very peculiar, bare, red, granite mounds, being the most extraordinary ranges one could possibly imagine, if indeed any one could imagine such a scene. They have thousands of acres of bare rock, piled up into mountainous shapes and lay in isolated masses, forming something like a broken circle, all round a central and higher mass. They have valleys filled with scrubs between each section. Numerous rocky glens and gorges were seen, having various kinds of shrubs and low trees growing in the interstices of the rocks. Every thing and every place was parched, bare, and dry. We searched in many places for water without success."
Tourism in the area has been taken under the wing of the
There is an extensive
References
- ^ "Search result for "The Everard Ranges" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities','SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Australia Twice Traversed (35)". Archived from the original on 10 September 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ Sharma, H.S. (1981). Perspectives in Geomorphology. Vol. 1. Concept. p. 128. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Natural Resource Management - Alinytjara Wilurara NRM region featured project: Caring for country in South Australia's Everard Ranges". Archived from the original on 20 September 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia: 6.8. Central Ranges". Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2010.