Английская Википедия:Abrakurrie Cave

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Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. It is located about Шаблон:Convert north west of Eucla[1] and is reported to have the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere,[2] and that stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of Aboriginal art of any cave system in Australia.[3]

Visits to the cave occurred as early as the 1880s.[4]

The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain J. M. Thompson in 1935. The explorers described a cave that was Шаблон:Convert in length, Шаблон:Convert wide and Шаблон:Convert deep.[5] After progressing a further Шаблон:Convert the group found the passage forked into two passages one of which continued a further Шаблон:Convert leading to a huge cavern.[5]

Photographs of the cave were published after the 1935 expedition.[6][7]

It was a well documented cave by the 1960s.[8]

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  8. Шаблон:Citation which includes Abrakurrie Cave (SE WA Nullarbor SH52-14),Koonalda Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-15) , Knowles Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-16), Murrawijinie Caves (Far West Nullarbor SA SH52-16) and mentions 154 mapped and 39 unmapped caves by that time