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An Underground Realm

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  The caves in the Naracoorte district are an unavoidable part of the local terrestial landscape. The surface of the Naracoorte Range, or more specifically, the Naracoorte East or Caves Range, contains numerous small entrances to a large and extensive honeycomb of limestone cavern systems below.  The attached map represents the cave entrances we are aware of today. Many of these access points have been dug out in modern times, but more obvious examples of cave falls and exposed chambers also abound. Within the traditional Caves Reserve of European times, the open experiences of the Blanche (aka 'Big'), Tomato/Sticks, Cathedral, and Bat Caves have always been known. Susan White & John Webb, 2015, 'The influence of tectonics on flank margin cave formation on a passive continental margin: Naracoorte, Southeastern Australia', Geomorphology , vol 229, pp  58-72 It is reasonable to assume that before their 'discovery' by British settlers in 1845, Indigenous people