The Nullarbor Plain is famous for being dry, flat and featureless — but it's a very different story beneath the surface, with an intricate cave system that has remained mostly untouched.
To many people that is Australia's Nullarbor, but in reality, the surface is pockmarked with holes that open the gateway to a subterranean wonderland.
"One of them is 35 kilometres long, snaking its way beneath the plain, and some of them are completely full of water and the only way to explore them is with diving equipment.While the thought of strapping yourself to an underwater scooter and navigating through unknown, pitch-black caves is terrifying to most people, cave experts — or speleologists — say only a tiny fraction of the caves have been documented, and the 'thrill of exploration' keeps bringing them back.
"The location offers high diurnal sun and wind loadings; is relatively unencumbered; and has road, rail and sea access possibilities." The Mirning are the traditional owners of the Nullarbor, and Mirning Green Energy is the commercial arm of the Mirning Traditional Lands Aboriginal Corporation . Ms Peel and the Mirning people must therefore balance any potential risk to their cultural sites with clear financial incentives.
"Our Mirning community, we are vast and wide, but they will come together and work these processes," Ms Peel said.Nullarbor floodwaters still waist-deep a month after drought-breaking rainElon Musk's fight with Australian regulators isn't really about the Sydney church attack, or even free speech. It's about power
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