Plan your Kangaroo Island stay and discover its eight diverse regions
Sometimes called ‘South Australia's Galapagos’, Kangaroo Island is stunning, rugged and wild, with an abundance of native wildlife. The 4,400 square kilometre island is Australia’s third-largest with over 540 kilometres of spectacular coastline. At 155 kilometres long and 55 kilometres across its widest point, ‘KI’, as it is known to locals, is six times larger than Singapore—but with a tiny fraction of its population.
Easily accessible from the mainland by ferry, cruise ship or plane, its natural attractions include the well-known Remarkable Rocks and Admirals Arch with its seal colony at the western end, but also magnificent beaches, soaring cliffs, unspoiled bushland and coastal dune systems. The wildlife and plant life on the island include species found nowhere else on earth and birds migrate here from the other side of the world.
The island is one of the best fishing destinations in Australia with many fish species in its numerous bays, coves, rivers and beaches. Seafood is a feature of this foodie’s paradise, along with locally produced wine, beer and spirits, meat, olive oil, jams and relishes, salt, oats and honey from the purest strain of Ligurian bees in the world.
All these treasures are spread over eight diverse and intriguing Kangaroo Island regions stretched out across the 'rock', as the locals lovingly call it. It will easily take you days to explore each of them, so make sure you have plenty of time in this natural wonderland, while you discover what to see, do, eat and drink in each region and town during your island escape.
