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  • 1. Waitomo Glowworm Caves Waitomo Caves
    The Waitomo Caves is a village and solutional cave system forming a major tourist attraction in the northern King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand, 12 kilometres northwest of Te Kuiti. The community of Waitomo Caves itself is very small, though the village has many temporary service workers living there as well. The word Waitomo comes from the Māori language wai meaning water and tomo meaning a doline or sinkhole; it can thus be translated to be water passing through a hole. The caves are formed in Oligocene limestone.
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  • 2. Jewel Cave Augusta
    Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana. Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently 3,329 m high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate. The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the island dates from as early as 12,000 BC. By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies and, for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Sicilian Wars and the Punic Wars. After t...
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  • 3. Glow Worm Caves North Tamborine
    Glowworm or glow-worm is the common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence. They include members of the families Elateridae, Lampyridae, Phengodidae, and Rhagophthalmidae among beetles; as well as members of the genera Arachnocampa, Keroplatus, and Orfelia among keroplatid fungus gnats.
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  • 7. Mulka's Cave Hyden
    The Humps is a granite rock formation known as a stepped bornhardt inselberg. It is located within The Humps Nature Reserve approximately 295 kilometres east of Perth and 17 kilometres north east of Hyden in the eastern wheatbelt region of Western Australia.Rising about 80 metres above the surrounding plains, The Humps is one of numerous rock formations in the area. Approximately 15 kilometres to its south is Hyden Rock whose northern side features the Wave Rock formation. Also in the area are Scrivener Rocks and Camel Peaks roughly 13 kilometres west of The Humps, Anderson Rocks about 19 kilometres north, and King Rocks approximately 18 kilometres east of The Humps.
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  • 8. Cave Gardens Mount Gambier
    The Cave Gardens are the garden located in the centre of Mount Gambier in the Australian state of South Australia that contain a 90-ft-deep cave. The cave was initially used as a water source for the town. In 1870 the area became a reserve, and by the 1890s trees, gas lamps and seating were installed in the area. On 2 August 2001, the Cave Gardens were declared a State Heritage area.
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  • 10. Lake Cave Margaret River
    Blue Lake National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 44 kilometres east of Brisbane on North Stradbroke Island. Access is provided by road 9 kilometres west of Dunwich. Camping, open fires, and domestic animals are not permitted in the park.
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  • 11. Ruakuri Cave Waitomo Caves
    Ruakuri Cave is the longest cave in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. It was first discovered by local Māori between 400 and 500 years ago. The name Ruakuri, or “den of dogs” was created when wild dogs were discovered making their home in the cave entrance some 300 years later. The cave entrance was used by the Maori as an urupa or burial site. It is this sacred area that has now been protected with the construction of the impressive spiral drum entrance some distance away. Ruakuri is the only wheelchair-accessible cave in the Southern Hemisphere. It is well known for its spiritual links to Māori and its unusual limestone formations and caverns. Major features of the Ruakuri Cave include Holdens Cavern , The Drum Passage, The Pretties and The Ghost Passage. The cave was open to the pu...
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  • 12. Engelbrecht Cave Mount Gambier
    Engelbrecht Cave is a cave system in the Australian state of South Australia consisting of a sinkhole with two major passages located under the urban area known as Mount Gambier. It is owned by the local government area of City of Mount Gambier and has been developed as a tourism venue. Its dry extent is notable as a show cave while its water-filled extent is notable as two separate cave diving sites.
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  • 13. Glow Worm Tunnel Lithgow
    The Glowworm Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel between Lithgow, New South Wales and Newnes, New South Wales, Australia. It is notable for its resident glow-worms, the bioluminescent larvae of Arachnocampa richardsae, a type of fungus gnat.
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  • 14. Anatakitaki Cave (Kopeka Cave) Atiu
    Anatakitaki Cave, or the Cave of the Kopekas, is a karst cave located on Atiu, Cook Islands. The cave is a large solutional cave, with many offshoot chambers and passages. A freshwater lake is to be found at the base of the cave. The Tiroto Tunnel connects this lake to the Pacific Ocean, and can be waded along until the last portion which is totally submerged. There is a great array of all sorts of speleothems decorating the cave throughout its length. The cave's alternate name comes from its population of Atiu swiftlets, which roost in the cave in vast numbers. They never land outside of the cave, and use echolocation just like bats. Roots, mainly from banyan trees, permeate the cave to its furthest depths.
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