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Naracoorte Caves National Park

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Naracoorte Caves National Park is an important World Heritage listed site within the limestone ranges of SA.

The park preserves 600 ha of remnant vegetation, with 26 caves contained within the 305ha World Heritage Area - the most famous being Victoria Fossil, Wet, Blanche and Alexandra Caves.

In caverns beneath the cave range visitors may view the decorations of calcite, fossils of long-extinct animals and view Bent-Wing Bats in the caves.

The Wonambi Fossil Centre contains numerous fossil displays, as well as a walk through diorama with life-sized models of extinct animals in their ancient habitats. This interpretive centre also illustrates how the caves have acted as pitfall traps, dens and roosts for more than 500,000 years.

Naracoorte Caves National Park is home to a camping ground and caravan park, dormitory accommodation for groups, picnic grounds and a licensed café.

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Further Information: Victoria Fossil Cave - In 1894 a series of inter-connected chambers with impressive calcite decorations were discovered, this became known as the Victoria Cave. In 1969 cave explorers squeezed through a 25cm passage into a chamber containing thousands of fossils of amazing diversity.
Further Information: Alexandra is a highly decorated and very active cave, one of the showpieces of the Naracoorte Caves, featuring examples of straws, columns, stalagmites, stalactites and flowstone. The 30min tour takes you through 3 main chambers. Blanche Cave (aka The Bat Cave) includes a 1hr tour which takes in the Bat Teleview Centre, allowing you to see the bats via infra-red cameras which relay the bats activites, and ends with a tour into 3 huge cave chambers. Opened in April 1994, Wet Cave provides an opportunity for self-guided tours of domed chambers with large calcite formations. Tickets to view this cave are included in the price of Wonambi Fossil Centre and Alexandra Cave tours.