The Stirling Range is protected by the Stirling Range National Park, which was gazetted in 1913, and has an area of 1159 km2.

Environment

Geology

The mountains are formed of metamorphic rock derived from quartz sandstones and shales deposited during the Paleoproterozoic Era, between 2,016 and 1,215 million years ago (based on U-Th-Pb isotope geochronology of monazite crystals).