Nullarbor Plain facts for kids

Nullarbor is the light tan semi-circular area near the coastline, 2002

Murrawijinie cave system seen from inside. It is a karst system, formed by water running through the limestone. Murrawijinie means "bloody hands": the caves were used by indigenous people who left their ochre hand stencils on the cave walls

Nullarbor Plain (Latin: nullus, "no", and arbor, "tree") is an area of flat, dry land in southern Australia on the coastline of the Great Australian Bight.

It is the world's largest single piece of limestone, and occupies an area of about 200,000 square kilometres (77,000 sq mi). At its widest point, it stretches about 1,100 kilometres (684 mi) from east to west between South Australia (SA) and Western Australia (WA). The name comes from the Latin words meaning "no trees".

Images for kids

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  Ceduna

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  Sign defining the edge of the plain at the western side. (This photograph depicts Nullarbor Roadhouse, seen from the west. Nullarbor Roadhouse lies on the South Australian side of the Eyre Highway, at the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain as well as Nullarbor National Park, which both extend miles farther west into Western Australian territory.)

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  Rainbow over the Nullarbor Plain

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  Vandalised road sign designating the beginning of the 90-mile (or 146.6 km) straight section of the highway

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  Tree full of shoes in "the middle of nowhere", the Nullarbor, Western Australia

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  The group that walked from Port Augusta to Norseman, including the Nullarbor Plain, in 1985