Nambung National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Australia
About Nambung National Park
The park contains a range of coastal habitats, but the strangest, and the big draw for visitors, is the area of desert studded with limestone pinnacles up to 3.5 m tall, like monuments or tombstones. Ancient seashells became scrunched up and blown inland to form dunes, which compacted and concreted, but there are several theories about what happened next. The theory favoured by the park is that an acid topsoil formed, then vegetable roots bored into the dunes and let in acidified rainwater. This eroded channels down through the dunes that filled with inert quartz sand. Eventually the sand blew away and the pillars between emerged as pinnacles. Some of them have caps of harder limestone representing the original dune surface - like miniature hoodoos though those are entirely wind-sculpted.
Top Attractions in Nambung National Park
Explore the best things to see and do in Nambung National Park:
- ★Pinnacles Desert Discovery Centre
Where to Stay in Nambung National Park
- 🏨Cervantes Lodge
- 🏨Pinnacles Edge Resort
- 🏨RAC Cervantes Holiday Park
Nambung National Park Travel Guide Sections
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