One of Australia's youngest volcanoes, a textbook scoria cone south of Mount Gambier with a steep walking trail to the crater rim.
Climb a young volcano
Mount Schank is a strikingly symmetrical scoria cone and one of the youngest volcanoes on the Australian mainland, last active around the same time as the Mount Gambier craters. A steep, sometimes loose trail climbs to the rim, where you can walk the full circuit of the crater and look down into its dry, grassy bowl with sweeping views to the coast. Wear sturdy shoes — the ascent is short but demanding.
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- Mount Schank viewed from Mount Gambier.jpg by http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Roo72 , CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons