Abrakurrie Cave
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Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. It is located about Script error: No such module "convert". north west of Eucla[1] and is reported to have the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere.[2] The stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of Aboriginal art of any cave system in Australia.[3]
Exploration
Visits to the cave occurred as early as the 1880s.[4]
The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain Template:Thinspace Thompson in 1935. The explorers described a cave that was Script error: No such module "convert". in length, Script error: No such module "convert". wide and Script error: No such module "convert". deep.[5] After progressing a further Script error: No such module "convert". the group found the passage forked into two passages one of which continued a further Script error: No such module "convert". leading to a huge cavern.[5]
Photographs of the cave were published after the 1935 expedition.[6][7]
It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.[8]
See also
References
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External links
- Inside Abrakurrie Cave (1935) State Library of South Australia
- Abrakurrie Cave Caves of Australia