Abrakurrie Cave
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Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. It is located about Template:Convert north west of Eucla<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is reported to have the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of Aboriginal art of any cave system in Australia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Exploration
Visits to the cave occurred as early as the 1880s.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain Template:Thinspace Thompson in 1935. The explorers described a cave that was Template:Convert in length, Template:Convert wide and Template:Convert deep.<ref name=R1>Template:Cite news</ref> After progressing a further Template:Convert the group found the passage forked into two passages one of which continued a further Template:Convert leading to a huge cavern.<ref name=R1/>
Photographs of the cave were published after the 1935 expedition.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.<ref>Template:Citation 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</ref>
See also
References
External links
- Inside Abrakurrie Cave (1935) State Library of South Australia
- Abrakurrie Cave Caves of Australia