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Jess Marsh, Research Fellow, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University

The Nullarbor's rich cultural history, vast cave systems and unique animals all deserve better protection

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The Nullarbor is one of Australia’s iconic natural places. It’s renowned as a vast and mostly treeless plain. But hidden beneath this ancient landscape is an immense network of caves.

These caves are part of the world’s largest contiguous limestone karst system. This karst landscape, created by water dissolving the limestone, spans some 200,000 square kilometres.

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