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Wikipedia: The Organ Pipes National Park is a 121-ha protected area in Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-west of Melbourne. The park was established in the year 1972 on what was then degraded farmland around the gully formed by Jacksons Creek in an attempt to reestablish an area of the indigenous vegetation of the district, which has been almost completely lost through farming and urban development. The particular site was chosen because of the presence of several interesting geological features, including the "Organ Pipes" themselves - a pattern of vertical pipe-like rock structures exposed by the erosion of the creek - and a "tesselated pavement", where the rock surface has been split into regular "tiles".
![[The Organ Pipes]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/OrganPipes_s.jpg "The Organ Pipes")
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![[The Organ Pipes in 2009]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Organ_Pipes_Geological_Feature_Melbourne_Australia_s.jpg "The Organ Pipes in 2009")
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