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    Red Banks Conservation Park

    This 1,035 ha park is located 170 km north of Adelaide off Barrier Highway. Red Banks features a scenic landscape of rugged earth gorges and native vegetation. Palaeontologists have called this area one of the richest mega-fauna sites in Australia. Up until approximately 65,000 years ago Red Banks was home to Diprotodon's, a huge marsupial that weighed between 1 – 2 tonnes, often likened to a giant wombat. From the day visitor area, take the Landscapes of Change interpretive walk, which passes deep gorges and permanent waterholes and learn what the landscape was like 60,000 years ago when these large marsupials were alive. The park provides an important habitat for birds, reptiles, Short-beaked Echidnas, Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats, Western Grey and Red Kangaroos and Euros.

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    For further information call (61 8) 8892 3025.