Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park — Attraction in Coober Pedy

Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park in Coober Pedy Visited on 16/6/2019

Our convoy of cars just follow the group leader. It is going to be bumpy tide, but he gives no clue where he is going to take us.

Sure enough it is a bumpy ride of 5 km dirt road. Fortunately, the road to the destination is dry, and is reachable without a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

We park our cars, still having no clue to expect. We walk towards the rim of the lookout, and what I see is just jaw dropping landscape.

This is a real outback scenery, presenting itself as a beautiful subject for an Australian outback painting with km of nothingness, except some rather lonely white dunes on red colour soil.

This reserve was renamed as the Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park on 19 November 2015. It was once covered by an inland sea, but now it is Aboriginal owned and is a registered aboriginal heritage site.

The reason for the name "Breakaways" is that the area consists of colourful low hills which have broken away from the...

Simply awesome. The views from the main lookout are good, but the views from the second lookout are simple STUNNING. The main lookout is 4 or 5 k from the Sturt Highway. But if you continue on another 1 or 2 k (towards the Oodnadatta to Coober Pedy road), you will come to a side road on the left, which will take you to the second lookout. Go up this road about 600m and you will come to a fenced parking area. Walk up the hill (very easy), and you will be blown away by the views. These views rival the Paint Hills at Arckaringa. Way better than the main lookout. If you continue on the road towards the O - CP road, you will have fantastic views of the white / yellow hills. This road is gravel and suitable for 2wd vehicles. Continue on again (16k), and you will reach the O - CP sealed road, passing the Dog Fence as you go. VERY HIGHLY...

The Kanku-Break­aways Con­ser­va­tion Park cov­ers almost 15,000 hectares fea­tur­ing majes­tic arid scenery. The area is home to almost 60 native flo­ra species includ­ing aca­cias, mallee and ere­mophil­ia. It is also home to a vari­ety of wildlife, includ­ing red kan­ga­roos, euro, echid­na, numer­ous bird species and the fat-tailed dun­nart (a mouse-like marsupial). The Kanku-Break­aways Con­ser­va­tion Park forms part of the tra­di­tion­al coun­try of the Antakir­in­ja Matun­t­jara Yankun­yt­jat­jara peo­ple. It is owned by Antakir­in­ja Matu-Yankun­yt­jat­jara Abo­rig­i­nal Cor­po­ra­tion (AMY­AC). The park is under a unique co-man­age­ment agree­ment between the AMY­AC, Dis­trict Coun­cil of Coober Pedy and Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment and...