You are looking at what the strength/weakness, relative abundance/scarcity, or presence/absence of various substances/qualities has delivered.
Likely-major players in the pictured instance: long-extinct volcanoes, erosion, chemical reactions, gravity, wind, rain, salt (windblown, from the nearby sea) and fire, sunlight, shade, shelter, temperature variation, “exhausted” soils, sheep.
Their net effect can vary enormously, within a distance of a few centimetres, from one side of a rock to that same rock’s other sides.
In this case, the result certainly ain’t lush.
It is, however, very beautiful…as is true of so many “demanding”,”difficult” environments.
Photo copyright Doug Spencer, taken on morning of 18 March 2025 whilst walking along part of the southern part of Flinders Island’s west coast.
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