Flinders Chase National Park
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}} Flinders Chase is a national park in South Australia (Australia), 213 km southwest of Adelaide.
Flinders Chase is composed of a group of protected areas at the western end of Kangaroo Island, it includes coastal landscapes, the Cape du Couedic, the Rocky River at the south west, the Gosse Lands at the north east and Cape Borda lightstation at the North west. The park is located 110 km west of Kingscote, the island's largest town.
Since the creation of the national park in November 1919, Flinders Chase has become a sanctuary for endangered species, some of them introduced from the continent in the 1920s and 1930s. During the 1940s, 23 additional species were introduced, including Koalas (1923) and Platypus (1928). Most of these species can still be observed today.
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See also
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