Sunlight penetrates the narrow walls of Echidna Chasm, creating a vivid orange glow on the towering sandstone cliffs.

    Midday light illuminates Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Australia.

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    Echidna Chasm

    Landmark

    Echidna Chasm is a narrow sandstone passage through the northern Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park. Steep walls rise closely on either side of the rocky floor, narrowing in places to only a few metres and limiting direct sunlight within the chasm. The vertical rock faces, confined compositions and changing reflected light provide opportunities for abstract and geological photography.

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    Sunlight penetrates the narrow walls of Echidna Chasm, creating a vivid orange glow on the towering sandstone cliffs.

    Midday light illuminates Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Austr…

    Visitors are dwarfed by the towering narrow walls of Echidna Chasm as sunlight illuminates the orange rock passage.

    Sunlight streaming into Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Austra…

    Towering orange rock walls form a narrow passage above the rocky floor of Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    Narrow passage through Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Austral…

    A visitor stands beneath a shaft of sunlight between the towering narrow walls of Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    Sunbeam illuminating Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Australia…

    A visitor dwarfed by the immense red rock walls and narrow passage of Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    A visitor dwarfed by the immense red rock walls and narrow passage of Echidna Ch…

    Sunlight catches the orange rock deep within the narrow, shadowed walls of Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    Sunlight illuminating the narrow walls of Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Pa…

    Tall palms rise between the steep orange rock walls at the entrance to Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    Palm trees beneath the towering walls of Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Par…

    Palm trees and dense vegetation line the rocky approach to Echidna Chasm in the Bungle Bungles.

    Palm-lined entrance to Echidna Chasm in Purnululu National Park, Western Austral…

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