Murrawijinie Cave | |
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![]() Murrawijinie Cave | |
Location | Nullarbor, South Australia, Australia |
Coordinates | 31°21′52″S 130°52′30″E / 31.36456°S 130.87505°E [1] |
Entrances | 3 |
Murrawijinie Cave is in the Australian state of South Australia within the gazetted locality of Nullarbor [1] on the Nullarbor Plain.
This cave [2] is open to the public but safety precautions should be taken before driving off the Eyre Highway. The entry is approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of the Nullarbor Roadhouse along a rough track. [3]
The main entry is a doline (a collapsed cave); another two entries are close by, which is typical of the Nullarbor's karst topography. Hawks and swallows use the caves as nesting sites. [3]
One of the entries has hand stencils on the walls drawn in ochre by Indigenous Australians. [4]
Since June 2013, the cave has been in the protected area known as the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area. [5]