Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the
Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its ...
in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
. It is located about north west of
Eucla and is reported to have the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere. The stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of
Aboriginal art of any cave system in Australia.
Exploration
Visits to the cave occurred as early as the 1880s.
The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain J. M. Thompson in 1935. The explorers described a cave that was in length, wide and deep.
After progressing a further the group found the passage forked into two passages one of which continued a further leading to a huge cavern.
[
Photographs of the cave were published after the 1935 expedition.
It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.][ which includes Abrakurrie Cave (SE WA Nullarbor SH52-14),Koonalda Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-15)
, Knowles Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-16), Murrawijinie Caves (Far West Nullarbor SA SH52-16) and mentions 154 mapped and 39 unmapped caves by that time]
See also
* List of caves in Australia
This is a list of caves in Australia.
Show caves New South Wales
* Abercrombie Caves
* Ashford Caves
* Bendethera Caves
* Borenore Caves
* Bungonia Caves
* Careys Caves
* Cliefden Caves
* Jenolan Caves (List of caves within the Jenolan Cav ...
References
External links
Inside Abrakurrie Cave
(1935) State Library of South Australia
Caves of Australia
Caves of Western Australia
Wild caves
Nullarbor Plain
{{WesternAustralia-geo-stub