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, and that stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of Aboriginal art of any cave system in Australia.

Visits to the cave occurred as early as the 1880s.

Abrakurrie Cave

The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain J. M. 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.

Abrakurrie Cave

Photographs of the cave were published after the 1935 expedition.

Abrakurrie Cave

It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.

See also

List of caves in Australia

References

External links

Inside Abrakurrie Cave (1935) State Library of South Australia

Abrakurrie Cave Caves of Australia

Caves of Western Australia

Wild caves

Nullarbor Plain