Nilpena Ediacara National Park.
Ediacara Tours
Nilpena National Park has huge FOSSIL BEDS which are of international significance and is an active geological research site.
Visiting the Nilpena National Park is by guided tour only. This restricted access is because of the FOSSIL BEDS which must be preserved as they are the history book of our planet.
Located on the Western side of the Flinders Ranges and adjacent to Lake Torrens, 540 km north of Adelaide in South Australia. Visitors who have booked on guided tours can access the park via the Outback Highway approximately 30 minutes north of Parachilna and 40 minutes south of Leigh Creek. The visual display in the the Blacksmith's shop is fantastic.
Before you make the tour you may like to visit YOUTUBE with your children and watch Lucy and Fossil Rocks, episodes one, two and three.
When visiting the Flinders Ranges make Hawker your base, the turnoff to Nilpena Ediacara National Park from Hawker is 115 kilometres north on the Outback Highway.
The Ediacaran Period is named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, where trace fossils of a diverse community of previously unrecognized lifeforms (later named the Ediacaran biota) were first discovered by geologist Reg Sprigg in 1946.
Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years. Although the period took namesake from the Ediacara Hills in the Nilpena Ediacara National Park, the type section is actually located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within the Brachina Gorge in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park.
View THE EDIACARAN MAN
Enjoy your holiday in the Flinders Ranges from Hawker.