List of caves in Australia explained

This is a list of caves in Australia.

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New South Wales

See main article: List of caves in 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 Caves karst)
• Timor Caves, Murrurundi, Hunter Valley
• Tuglow Caves
• Wee Jasper
• Wellington Caves
• Wombeyan Caves
  • Fig Tree Cave
  • Wollondilly Cave
  • Junction Cave
  • Kooringa Cave
  • Mulwaree Cave
  • Dennings Labyrinth
• Wyanbene Caves
• Yarrangobilly Caves

Queensland

• Capricorn Caves
• Chillagoe-Mungana Caves
  • Donna Cave
  • Trezkinn Cave
  • Royal Arch Cave

South Australia

• Kangaroo Island
  • Kelly Hill Caves
• Lower South-East
  • Cave Gardens (Mount Gambier)
  • Engelbrecht Cave
  • Tantanoola Caves
• Upper South-East
  • Naracoorte Caves
    • Alexandra Cave
    • Blanche Cave
    • Victoria Fossil Cave
    • Wet Cave

Tasmania

• Gunns Plains Cave, Gunns Plains
• Mole Creek
  • King Solomons Cave
  • Marakoopa Cave
• Newdegate Cave, Hastings Caves

Victoria

• Buchan
  • Buchan Caves
    • Fairy Cave
    • Royal Cave
  • Cloggs Cave
  • Murrindal
    • Shades of Death Cave
  • New Guinea II cave
  • Byaduk Caves, Byaduk Glenelg River
  • Princess Margaret Rose Cave
  • Mudgegonga rock shelter Tarragal Caves

Western Australia

See main article: List of caves in Western Australia.

• South West
  • Jewel Cave
  • Lake Cave
  • Mammoth Cave
  • Moondyne Cave
  • Ngilgi Cave (formerly Yallingup Cave)
• Yanchep
  • Cabaret Cave
  • Crystal Cave
  • Yonderup Cave

Northern Territory

• Cutta Cutta Caves, Katherine

Wild caves

New South Wales

See main article: List of caves in New South Wales.

• The Big Hole and Marble Arch
• Blue Water Holes
• Bungonia Caves
• Careys Cave
• Cave Island
• Cliefden Caves
• Colong Caves
• Cotter Caves
• Jenolan Caves
• Timor Caves
• Yarangobilly
• St Michaels Cave
• Wee Jasper
• Wombeyan Caves

Queensland

• Camooweal Caves
  • Five O’Clock Cave
  • Four Mile East Cave
  • Great Nowranie Cave
  • Little Nowranie Cave
  • Niggle Cave
• Chillagoe-Mungana Caves
  • The Archways
  • Pompeii Cave
  • Bauhinia Cave
• Undara
  • Undara Lava Tubes
• Mount Etna Caves National Park

South Australia

• Flinders Ranges
  • Mairs Cave
  • Mount Sims Cave
  • Narrina Lake Cave
  • Wooltana Cave
• Lower South-East
  • Fossil Cave
  • Sheathers Cave
  • Snake Hill Cave
• Murray River Area
  • Punyleroo Cave
  • River Road Cave
• Upper South-East
  • Appledore Cave
  • Beekeepers Cave
  • Brownsnake Cave
  • Cave Park Cave
  • Echidna Cave
  • Fox Cave
  • Little Victoria Cave
  • S102 Cave
  • VDC Cave
• Yorke Peninsula
  • Corra-Lynn Cave
  • Town Well Cave
  • Windmill Cave
• South-West
  • Koonalda Cave
  • Koongine Cave
  • Murrawijinie Cave

Tasmania

• Exit Cave, Ida Bay
• Growling Swallet, Junee Florentine Valley, Mount Field
• Honeycomb Caves, Caveside
• Mole Creek Caves
  • Khubla Khan
• Mystery Creek Cave, Ida Bay
• Wet Caves, Caveside

Victoria

• • Wilsons Cave
• Britannia Creek
  • Britannia Creek Caves
• Buchan
• Kavery's Cave
• Labertouche
  • Labertouche Cave

Western Australia

See main article: List of caves in Western Australia.

• Kimberly
  • Cave Springs Cave
  • Mimbi
  • Old Napier Downs Cave
  • Tunnel Creek
  • Wangahinnya Caves
• Mid West Gascoyne
  • Arramall Cave
  • Drovers Cave
  • Gooseberry Cave
  • Mystery Cave
  • Old River Cave
  • River Cave
  • Stockyard Gully Caves
    • Aiyennu Cave
    • Beekeepers Hole (also known as Uniwa Cave)
    • Stockyard Bridge
    • Stockyard Cave
    • Stockyard Tunnel
    • Weelawadji Cave
• Nullarbor
  • Abrakurrie Cave
  • Balladonia Cave
  • Cocklebiddy Cave
  • Horseshoe Cave
  • Kellys Cave
  • Koonalda (in South Australia)
  • Old Homestead Cave
  • Pannakin Plain Cave
  • Thampanna Cave
  • Stegamite Cave
  • Weebubbie Cave (in South Australia)
• Perth/Peel/Yanchep
  • The Catacombs
  • Concinna Cave
  • Gibb Cave
  • Gidgee Karupa (Spear Cave)
  • Kings Park Caves (tunnelled and extended during WW2 for Catalina FBY base)
  • Loch Overflow
  • Mambibby Cave
  • Mandurah Caves
  • Minnies Grotto
  • Rottnest Island Caves
  • Surprise Cave
  • Wanneroo Karst
  • Yanchep Cave
• Pilbara / Cape Range
  • Anomaly Cave
  • Bell Cave
  • Canyon Cave
  • Owl Roost Cave
• South West
  • Arumvale Pipe and Arumvale Cave
  • Beenup Cave
  • Blackboy Hollow
  • Bride
  • Calgardup
  • Cowarumup Cave
  • Deeondeeup Cave
  • Devils Lair and Nannup Cave
  • Dingo Cave
  • Easter Cave
  • Giant's
  • Golgotha Cave
  • Ketelack Cave
  • Labyrinth Cave
  • Lost Pearl Cave
  • Meekadorabee Cave
  • Mill Cave
  • Milligans Cave
  • Nannup
  • Northcote Grotto
  • Old Kudardup Cave
  • Quinninup Lake Cave
  • Snake Pit Cave
  • Strongs Cave
  • Tiger
  • Wallcliffe Cave
  • Witchcliffe Cave

Australian territories

• Christmas Island
  • Lava Tubes

Northern Territory

• Bullita Cave

Underwater Caves

New South Wales

• Jenolan Caves
  • Barralong Cave
  • Blue Lake Cave
  • Cerberus Junction
  • Far Country Cave
  • Imperial Cave
  • Lethe Cave
  • Mammoth Cave
  • Pool of Cerberus Cave
  • Pool of Reflections Cave
  • Slug Lake Cave
  • Spider Cave
  • Styx River Spring Cave
• Wellington Caves
  • Anticline (Water) Cave
  • Cathedral Cave
  • Limekiln (McCavity) Cave
• Wombeyan Caves
  • Bullio Cave
  • Glass Cave

Queensland

• Camooweal Caves
  • Great Nowranie Cave
  • Hassles Cave
  • Niggle Cave
  • Spinifex Cave

South Australia

• Flingers Range Karst
  • Narrina Lake Cave
• Mount Gambier Karst region
  • Allendale Sinkhole
  • Alleyns (Death) Cave
  • Bakers Cave
  • Benara Sinkhole
  • Bottlebrush sinkhole (Banksia Cave)
  • Bullocks Hole Cave
  • Daves Cave
  • Devils Punchbowl Cave
  • Earls Cave
  • Ela Elap Cave
  • Engelbrechts Cave
  • Ewens Ponds Cave
  • Fossil Cave
  • Gouldens Hole Cave
  • Hancocks Cave
  • Hanns Cave
  • Hells Hole
  • Horse & Cart Sinkhole
  • Iddlebiddy Cave
  • Kilsbys Sinkhole
  • Little Blue Lake Cave
  • Maxs Hole Cave
  • McKays Shaft Cave
  • Mud Hole Cave
  • Nettlebed Cave
  • One Tree (Wurwurlooloo) Cave
  • Piccaninnie Ponds Cave
  • Quarry Cave
  • Sheathers Cave
  • Swim Through Cave
  • Tank Cave
  • Tantanoola Lake Cave
  • Teatree Sinkhole
  • Ten Eighty Cave
  • The Pines Cave
  • The Shaft Cave
  • The Sisters Cave
  • Three Sisters Cave
  • Woolwash Cave

Tasmania

• Mole Creek caves
  • Khubla Khan (Underwater segment)
• Junee Florentine Caves
  • Growling Swallet (Underwater segment)
  • Junee Cave
  • Lawrence Rivulet Rising Cave
  • Tigers Eye Cave

Victoria

• Murrindal Caves
  • Dalleys Sinkhole
  • Elk River Cave

Western Australia

• Cape Range Karst
  • 6C-215 Cave
  • Bundera Sinkhole
  • Dozer Cave
  • Gnamma Hole Cave
• Kimberly Karst
  • Kija Blue Sinkhole
  • KNI-52 Cave
  • KNI-64 Cave
  • Old Napier Downs Cave
  • Waterfall Cave
• Nullabor Karst
  • Burnabbie Cave
  • Cocklebiddy Cave
  • Koonalda Cave
  • Mullamullang Cave
  • Murra-El-Elevyn Cave
  • Nurina Cave
  • Olwolgin Cave
  • Pannikin Plains Cave
  • Slot Cave
  • Tommy Grahams Cave
  • Warbla Cave
  • Weebubbie Cave
  • Winbirra Cave
• South Hill River Karst
  • Toombstones (Wolka Wolka Well) Cave

Australian Territories

• Christmas Island
  • Thundercliff Cave
  • West White Beach Cave

Northern Territory

• Kathrine Karst
  • Kathrine Hot Springs

See also

• List of caves (Global)
  • Speleology Cave diving
• Caving (Also known as Spelunking or Potholing)
• Karst
• Cave diving regions of the world

External links

• The Australian Karst Index
• The Australian Speleological Federation
• Cave Exploration Group (South Australia) Incorporated
• Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society Inc. (NHVSS)
• The Victorian Speleological Association Inc.
• The Sydney Speleological Society
• Cave Diving Down Under (Cave Dive AUS)