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Undara Volcanic National Park, Queensland, Australia

Undara Volcanic is a national park in North Queensland, Australia. It is notable for its lava tubes and gem fossicking. Minerals found there include topaz, moonstone, peridot, aquamarine, garnet, quartz and gold. The park contains the remains of the Earth’s longest flow of lava originating from a single volcanic crater.. The lava flow is about 160 km long. The park is remote, and accessible from the regional centres of Townsville or Cairns. The area is situated within the McBride volcanic province and contains 164 volcanoes, vents and cones. The lava tubes are regarded amongst the largest and longest on the planet. The word Undara is aboriginal in origin and means a long way.The volcanic activity that formed the tubes occurred approximately 189,000 years ago and the volcano Undara expelled massive amounts of lava onto the surrounding Atherton Tableland. In total it was estimated that over 23 billion cubic metres of lava was released covering an area of 1550 km2. Bayliss Cave is the remains of a lava tube that was once over 100 kilometres in length. The cave itself is over 1,300 metres in length, 11 metres high and 22 metres wide. It is described as a bad air cave with measured carbon dioxide levels as high as 5.9%.In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Undara Volcanic National Park was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a Natural attraction.
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Lava Tubes in Australia - Undara Volcanic National Park Experience, North Queensland

See more at . Lava Tubes in Australia - Undara Volcanic National Park Experience. Undara Lava Tubes were formed by a massive volcanic eruption 190,000 years ago. They are located about 4 hours drive south west of Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. Web:
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Undarra Lava Tubes, Australian Travel Video Guide

The Undara lava tubes were formed one hundred and ninety thousand years ago when a volcanic eruption spewed lava along creeks and riverbeds to form the lava tubes left today.

I interviewed Savannah Guide Val Speedie. Savannah guides is a network of professional tour guides with an in-depth collective knowledge of the natural and cultural assets of the tropical savannahs of northern Australia. Val has been a guide at Undara for the last ten years and has a vast knowledge of the area

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Chapter 13 - Undara Lava Tubes

Undara Lava Tubes Underwater

This rare footage filmed by Stuart Ireland and edited to a musical score composed by Eric Bettens documents the once in 30 years flooding of the Lava Tubes.

Undara lava tubes and fossils (Queenland, Austalia)

A relatively recent episode of volcanism occurred in north Queensland, Australia, during the time of the Ice Age megafauna around 190 ka (ka = thousands of years ago), as demonstrated by the remarkable lava tubes that formed around Undara. Today the region’s volcanoes are extinct, but you can still see evidence of the remarkable flows. Interestingly, the erupted lavas did not disperse widely, but rather, they flowed along, and were restricted to, the ancient watercourses of the region (rivers and creeks). This allowed lava flows to extend as far as 164 km from the original volcano! The longest individual lava tube at Undara is 1.3 km in length and occurs up to 25 m below the modern surface.

The tubes act as natural pitfall traps for the unsuspecting kangaroo or two, thus, have the potential to yield the fossil remains of the Ice Age (Pleistocene) megafauna.

For more information, please see this article on the fossils of Undara's lava tubes:

Lava Tube Formation

Explore the fascinating development of lava tubes.

Kazumura Cave - Lava Tube - Hawaii

Random clips from 4 hour Kazumura Cave tour to Pit Room given by Harry Shick. See:

Harry is very knowledgeable about geology and biology of lava tubes and I highly reccommend the tour. Easy hike, no skill required. I used Sony DCR-HC96 camcorder and Amondotech N30 light. Video is darker than by eye.

Sunrise - Undara Lava Tubes, 29 June 2011

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The volcano - Mt. Rainier fly by

Undara Lava Tubes National Park microbat flyout

See a microbat flyout with a difference. Undara Lava Tubes National Park has a microbat flyout where you get the bats flying within millimetres of you. You can stand in the stream and feel their breeze on your face as they pass.
Google Undara Lava Tubes National Park for further info. Look for the Night Tigers or microbat Sunset Tour.

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2009 Wayne Leonard Muster.
Annual Fundraising run in Far North Queensland, Australia
This year, Outback to Undara Lavatubes... 85 bikes, 110 people raised AU$56k for the local Childrens Hospital in Cairns.
Video is just a quick clip of the trip..

Mt Surprise & Undara travel video guide, Queensland Australia

As we left Cairns in Queenslands Tropical North we continued our journey along the the savannah way. Our next stop was Mount Surprise.

Mount Surprise is a railway town on the Cairns to Forsayth Railway and is the first town within the Gulf Savannah encountered by visitors approaching from the east. You can leave from Cairns and take a trip on the Savannah Lander or self drive into this region.

The town is QLD's centre for gem fossicking with quantities of topaz, quartz, spinel, garnet, cairngorm and aquamarine to be found. It also sits on the edge of an immense lava flow from an ancient volcano to the south east.

The Undara volcanic lava tubes are the best preserved lava tubes of its kind anywhere in the world and are definitely worth a visit.

For further information please visit:

Bedrock Village Caravan Park

The Gem Den

The Undara Experience

Just Cruisin' Oz Ep 5 Undarra Lava Tubes

Episode 5
Our Undara Lava Cave experience and stay at the Undara Experience Resort.
Travelling from The Land Oasis Roadhouse to Undara Experience wilderness resort. May 2019

Undara Lava Tubes via Skysafari 1

500ms in the air over the McBride Volcanic Plateau in a Skysafari Robbie 44 is the most amazing views of the Undara Lava Lodge

Bats at the Undara Lava Tubes

It's meal time for brown tree snakes as 250,000 bats flood out of local Undara caves in outback Queensland, Australia.

Beware of Lava Tubes

A lava tube is created by a lava flow cooling. Year later they could prove to be deadly. See more on Lava Chasers Tuesday at 8pm only on The Weather Channel.

Last Updated: 05/02/13 at 8 a.m. est.

Undara Experience

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