Wilderness Gallery

Waddy trees (Acacia peuce)

Waddy trees (Acacia peuce), a tiny remnant of pre ice-age forests.Aboriginal people made and still make clubs from the very dense wood. The tree can grow to 17 m and live for up to 500 years. SE of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

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Saw-tooth hills of the Gardiner Range

Saw-tooth hills of the Gardiner Range, birth scars of the continent, betraying the repeated folding that occurred through Australia's central mobile belt as the northern and southern cratons gradually became welded together between 1600 and 900 million years ago. Subsequent erosion by wind and water sculpted the tectonic wrinkles into these even scallops. East of Palm Valley, Northern Territory, Australia

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Visitor on the Perry Sand Hills formed after an ice age 40 thousand years ago

Visitor on the Perry Sand Hills formed after an ice age 40 thousand years ago and now forming a landscape spread over 333 ha that is continually changed by the wind. It has featured in numbers of films, TV shows and advertisements. The Wentworth Pioneer Museum has on display the remains of megafauna found here: kangaroos, lions, emus and wombats. Near Wentworth, far southwest New South Wales, Australia