Burketown Hot Spring Bore

Burketown Hot Spring Bore

This 702 m deep borehole was made in 1897 and there is gushing hot (68 °C), salty water from it. Now here stands some meters tall lime formation with water gushing from its summit.

Eliot Falls

Eliot Falls

Picturesque waterfall with several steps. One step of this waterfall has formed a ravine in the bedrock and at high water it falls all along one side of this “ravine”.

Donkin Falls

Some 90 m tall waterfall with a single plunge. The stream is perennial.

Paralana Radioactive Springs

Hot springs with a temperature of 57 degrees C, highly radioactive. The heat could be caused by the natural nuclear fission. Discharge – 16 l/s.

Shell Beach, L’Haridon Bight

Shell Beach, Western Australia

One of the few beaches in the world that consists exclusively of shells. Here shells extend for 60 kilometers with a 7 -10 m thick layer.

Bundera Sinkhole

Some 70 m deep, flooded sinkhole with anchialine ecosystem – e.g. the groundwater in this cave is connected to the sea, while at the surface is less saline water. Here live unique species of remipedes – Lasionectes exleyi – crustaceans with the only other relative species in the Caribbean as well as some more unique organisms. These organisms are relicts of the Mesozoic era.

Reynolds Falls

Reynolds Falls in Tasmania

Beautiful waterfall on Vale River. Waterfall is in a narrow gorge and falls with a single, more than 50 m tall plunge from a narrow canyon.

Mulka’s Cave

In Mulka's Cave

Cave – grotto under giant granite monolith. Contains 452 drawings – Aboriginal art from around 4500 BC and more recently. Most of the images are hands.

Devil’s Lair

Cave – grotto with a 6.6 m thick layer of sediments. Archaeological research in the cave has provided valuable knowledge about the past of Australia. Human occupation in the cave started around 48,000 years ago.