Updated version of the popular volume first published in 1979. Most Chapters have been newly written and the few others have been updated. Chapters include: Geology; The Land Surface; Soils; Giant Submarine Canyons; Climate; Vegetation; Aborigines; Terrestrial Mammals; Marine Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and Amphibians; Fossil Vertebrates; Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrates; Fishes; Intertidal Invertebrates; Intertidal Ecology; and a Historical Perspective, Kangaroo Island - 1803.