Flinders Chase National Park

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Flinders Chase National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Flinders Chase National Park
Nearest town/city: Kingscote
Coordinates: 35°58′38″S, 136°40′22″E
Area: 328 km²
Managing authorities: Department for Environment and Heritage
Official site: Flinders Chase National Park

Flinders Chase is a national park in South Australia (Australia), 213 km southwest of Adelaide.

Flinders Chase is composed of a group of protected areas at the western end of Kangaroo Island. It includes coastal landscapes, the Cape du Couedic, the Rocky River in the southwest, the Gosse Lands in the northeast and Cape Borda lightstation in the northwest. The park is located 110 km west of Kingscote, the island's largest town.

Since the creation of the national park in November 1919, Flinders Chase has become a sanctuary for endangered species, some of them introduced from the continent in the 1920s and 1930s. During the 1940s, 23 additional species were introduced, including Koalas (1923) and Platypus (1928). Most of these species can still be observed today.

View from Bunker Hill lookout
View from Bunker Hill lookout


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National Parks:
Belair | Canunda | Coffin Bay | Coorong | Flinders Chase | Flinders Ranges | Gawler Ranges | Innes | Lake Eyre | Lake Gairdner | Lake Torrens | Lincoln | Mount Remarkable | Murray River | Naracoorte Caves | Nullarbor | Onkaparinga River | Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges | Witjira

Conservation Parks:
Acraman Creek | Billiatt | Black Hill | Cape Gantheaume | Cleland | Cox Scrub | Danggali | Deep Creek | Fairview | Kelly Hill | Hacks Lagoon | Lake Gilles | Marino | Monarto | Morialta | Naracoorte Caves | Ngarkat group | Scott Creek | Seal Bay | Simpson Desert | Spring Gully | Talisker | Telowie Gorge | Unnamed

Recreation Parks:
Brownhill Creek | Onkaparinga River | Totness

Regional Reserves:
Lake Frome | Nullarbor | Simpson Desert | Strzelecki 

Conservation Reserves:
Chadinga | Naracoorte Caves

Wilderness Protection Areas:
Cape Gantheaume | Ravine des Casoars 

Game Reserves:
Bool Lagoon
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