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New South Wales

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Abercrombie Caves The Abercrombie Caves, contained within the Abercrombie Karst Conservation Reserve, are a series of limestone arch caves that are located in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The caves are renowned for their karst quali ...
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Ashford Caves The Ashford Caves, located within the Kwiambal National Park, are a series of caves that contain an outcrop of coralline limestone and are located in the New England Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The cav ...
* Bendethera Caves * Borenore Caves *
Bungonia Caves Bungonia Caves are a series of caves near the city of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Overview The caves are sited within the Bungonia State Conservation Area adjoining the Morton National Park, about east of Goulburn and about south-w ...
* Careys Caves * Cliefden Caves *
Jenolan Caves The Jenolan Caves (Tharawal language, Tharawal: ''Binoomea'', ''Bindo'', ''Binda'') are limestone cave, limestone caves located within the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Blue Mountains (New South ...
( 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

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Capricorn Caves Capricorn Caves are located north of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. The limestone caves are one of the largest privately owned cave systems in Australia. History It was first discovered in 1881 by Norwegian migrant John Olsen. He went o ...
* Chillagoe-Mungana Caves ** Donna Cave ** Trezkinn Cave ** Royal Arch Cave


South Australia

* Kangaroo Island ** Kelly Hill Caves * Lower South-East ** Cave Gardens (
Mount Gambier Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 33,233 . The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about south-east of the capital Ad ...
) ** Engelbrecht Cave ** Tantanoola Caves * Upper South-East **
Naracoorte Caves Naracoorte Caves National Park is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia ( Australia). It was officially recognised in 1994 for its extensive fossil record when the site was in ...
*** Alexandra Cave *** Blanche Cave *** Victoria Fossil Cave *** Wet Cave


Tasmania

* Gunns Plains Cave, Gunns Plains *
Mole Creek Mole Creek is a town in the upper Mersey Valley, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. Mole Creek is well known for its honey and accounts for about 35 percent of Tasmania's honey production. The locality is in the Meander Valley Counc ...
** King Solomons Cave ** Marakoopa Cave *
Newdegate Cave The Hastings Caves State Reserve is the setting of a complex of caves and a natural warm springs located south of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Newdegate Cave, the largest dolomite cave in Australia open to tourists, is a part of the complex. T ...
, Hastings Caves


Victoria

* Buchan **
Buchan Caves The Buchan Caves are a group of limestone caves that include the Royal Cave and the Fairy Cave, located south-west of , in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. They have a total length of between , and six entrances. T ...
*** Fairy Cave *** Royal Cave ** Cloggs Cave ** Murrindal *** Shades of Death Cave **
New Guinea II cave New Guinea II is a limestone cave and rockshelter on the Snowy River at the end of New Guinea Track, near Buchan, Victoria. The cave was within the country of the Krowathunkooloong clan of the Gunaikurnai nation. The deep cave system has an overh ...
* Byaduk Caves, Byaduk * Glenelg River ** Princess Margaret Rose Cave *
Mudgegonga rock shelter The Mudgegonga rock shelter is a large rock overhang which contains over 400 Aboriginal wall paintings and stencils and evidence of prehistoric Aboriginal occupation. The site is located in north eastern Victoria near the town of Mudgegonga, and ...
* Tarragal Caves


Western Australia

* South West ** Jewel Cave ** Lake Cave **
Mammoth Cave Mammoth Cave National Park is an American national park in west-central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. Since the 1972 unification of Mammoth Cave with the even-longer system under F ...
** Moondyne Cave ** Ngilgi Cave (formerly Yallingup Cave) * Yanchep ** Cabaret Cave ** Crystal Cave ** Yonderup Cave


Northern Territory

* Cutta Cutta Caves,
Katherine Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and Catherina, other variations are feminine Given name, names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria ...


Wild caves


New South Wales

* The Big Hole and Marble Arch * Blue Water Holes *
Bungonia Caves Bungonia Caves are a series of caves near the city of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Overview The caves are sited within the Bungonia State Conservation Area adjoining the Morton National Park, about east of Goulburn and about south-w ...
* 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 Mount Etna Caves is a national park in The Caves, Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia, 544 km northwest of Brisbane. The park's caves are the roosting site for more than 80 percent of Australia's breeding population of little bent ...


South Australia

* Flinders Ranges ** Mairs Cave ** Mount Sims Cave ** Narrina Lake Cave ** Wooltana Cave * Lower South-East **
Fossil Cave Fossil Cave (5L81), formerly known as The Green Waterhole, is a cave in the Limestone Coast region of south-eastern South Australia. It is located in the gazetted locality of Tantanoola about north-west of the city of Mount Gambier, only a ...
** 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 Koonalda Cave is a cave in the Australian state of South Australia, on the Nullarbor Plain in the locality of Nullarbor. It is notable as an archeological site.
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Koongine Cave Koongine Cave is located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The cave is situated in a limestone ridge approximately from the coastline. It was occupied approximately 10,000 years ago for a period of approximately 1,500 years leaving up to ...
** Murrawijinie Cave


Tasmania

* Exit Cave Ida Bay * Growling Swallet, Junee Florentine Valley, Mount Field * Honeycomb Caves,
Caveside Caveside is a rural locality in the local government area of Meander Valley in the Launceston region of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of Westbury. It lies between the Great Western Tiers to the south and Mole Creek to ...
* 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

* 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

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Christmas Island Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the ...
** 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

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List of caves This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory' ...
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Speleology Speleology is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology). ...
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Cave diving Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation, or for the search for and recovery of divers or, as in the 2018 Thai cave rescue, other ...
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Caving Caving – also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology i ...
(Also known as Spelunking or Potholing) *
Karst Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant ro ...
* 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)
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