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Mole Creek Karst National Park
The Mole Creek Karst National Park, features an extensive karst landscape of caves, sinkholes, gorges, streams and springs that weave their way below the surface. These amazing features form a part of the extensive Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).
Visitors can access two very different caves, offering contrasting underground environments to explore. Marakoopa Cave is home to a starry display of glow worms and a huge cavern known as the Great Cathedral, which reverberates song with perfect clarity. Two streams flow through the Marakoopa Cave and the sound of running water follows you throughout.
In contrast to Marakoopa Cave, King Solomons Cave is compact and drier but still features lavish decorations and striking formations, including impressive shawls, stalactites and stalagmites.
The Mole Creek Caves are home to a range of fascinating animals that exist in this unique and lightless underground environment, including cave spiders, harvestmen and crickets.
A Where is the Mole Creek Karst National Park located?
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Fingal Valley
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Mount King William
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Great Western Tiers
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Burnie
B It is the only national park in Tasmania created specifically to protect karst landforms. The area is renowned for its gorges, sinkholes and numerous spectacular caves. The popular show caves open to the public are Marakoopa and?
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King Edwards
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King Tuts
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King Solomons
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Queen Elizabeths
C What in Marakoopa Cave are the larval form of a mosquito-like fly.?
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Cave Beetles
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Stalactites
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Glow Worms
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Drop Worms
D Bats and frogs occur in the park and around cave entrances along with which fish?
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Gold Fish
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Penguins
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Rainbow Trout
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Brown Trout
E The first European discovery of the Mole Creek karst system occurred in the?
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1840s
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1830s
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1820s
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1810s
F The tourism potential of the caves was quickly realised and Marakoopa Cave was open to the public in what year?
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1909
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1910
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1911
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1912
The cache can be found at S 42° 33.ABC′ E 147° 23.DEF′
(Source: Mole Creek)
This cache has been placed for The Tassie Event 2026. The Tas_Geo community of cachers have committed to their ongoing maintenance, beyond the mega event.