Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. 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 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.

It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.

See also

  • List of caves in Australia

References

  • Inside Abrakurrie Cave (1935) State Library of South Australia
  • Abrakurrie Cave Caves of Australia