Remarkable Rocks
Sculpted Granite on Kangaroo Island
schedule 1 min read / Updated Apr 2026
A cluster of granite boulders balanced on a dome above the Southern Ocean, hollowed and polished by 500 million years of wind, salt and rain. Sits at the western end of Kangaroo Island in Flinders Chase National Park.
The Remarkable Rocks are a cluster of granite boulders balanced on a granite dome above the Southern Ocean at the western end of Kangaroo Island. The dome itself is the eroded peak of a granite intrusion that solidified roughly 500 million years ago, deep underground, and was then exposed by hundreds of millions of years of weathering as the surrounding softer rock washed away.
The boulders are made of orthoclase, a feldspar-rich granite. Their distinctive shapes and orange lichen patches are the result of constant exposure to wind, salt spray and rain. Some are hollowed out, some balance precariously, and the largest is roughly the size of a small house. They sit within Flinders Chase National Park, which covers the south-western quarter of Kangaroo Island.
Flinders Chase was severely burned in the 2019 to 2020 bushfires. The Remarkable Rocks themselves were not damaged but the surrounding scrub took several years to regenerate. The site is reached by a sealed road from Kingscote, with a short boardwalk from the car park to the dome.
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