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RAVINE DES CASOARS – FLINDERS CHASE NATIONAL PARK (KANGAROO ISLAND)
Distance: 7.5km Loop
Incline: 150m
Ravine Des Casoars is a bit of a strange name but it actually means Ravine of the Cassowaries, which is a large flightless bird from the tropics of Papua New Guinea. The gorge and an associated drainage basin are located on the west coast of Kangaroo Island about 95 kilometers west of the main town of Kingscote. There were never any Cassawories here but the first English settlers mistook the native Emu for a Cassowary and gave the ravine a factually incorrect name. There are signs of Indigenous presence in the ravine as far back as 7,500 years and I’m sure they never saw a Cassowary once.
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