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Remarkable Rocks

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Remarkable Rocks is a group of naturally sculptured granite boulders perched atop a granite dome at the western end of Kangaroo Island in South Australia, within Flinders Chase National Park. The dome itself emerged from volcanic activity roughly 200 million years ago, and wind and sea spray have since carved its granite into shapes that visitors have compared to monumental sculptures, standing some 200 feet above the sea below. Remarkable Rocks and the nearby Cape du Couedic have both been formally recognized as geological monuments by the Geological Society of Australia.

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1. Flinders Chase National Park (Wikipedia)
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Flinders Chase National Park (formerly Flinders Chase) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located at the west end of Kangaroo Island about 177 kilometres (110 miles) west-south west of the state capital of Adelaide and 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of the municipal seat of Kingscote.
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