Qualla: Murrawijinie Cave https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Murrawijinie Cave https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave Murrawijinie Cave: Introduction https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name carries its own warning and its own beauty. Murrawijinie means "bloodied hands," and the reason is written on the walls. Deep in this Nullarbor sinkhole, on the cool stone away from the sun, are the stencilled outlines of human hands, sprayed in red ochre by Aboriginal people who came here long ago. To make them, someone pressed a hand flat against the rock and blew a mist of ochre across it, then lifted it away to leave a shadow behind, a negative print, a hand that is still here ten thousand years and more after the hand itself was gone. There are caves on the Nullarbor that hold water, and caves that hold bones. This one holds the memory of touch.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/qfmj-murrawijinie-cave-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Murrawijinie Cave: Hands on the Wall https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Hand stencils are among the oldest and most universal forms of human art, found in caves on nearly every inhabited continent, and yet they never lose their power. At Murrawijinie, the ochre prints are a direct, intimate record of the people who used these caves: not a drawing of ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/qfmj-murrawijinie-cave-hands-on-the-wall.mp3 0:06 2 full Murrawijinie Cave: Holes in the Plain https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Murrawijinie is really a group of caves, reached about 10 kilometres north of the Nullarbor Roadhouse along a rough track off the Eyre Highway. The way in is through a doline, a sinkhole where the limestone roof of an older cavern has collapsed and opened a window into the dark; ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/qfmj-murrawijinie-cave-holes-in-the-plain.mp3 0:06 3 full Murrawijinie Cave: Life in the Hollows https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. The caves are not silent. Hawks and swallows nest on the ledges and in the shadowed openings, wheeling up out of the sinkholes into the glare of the plain and dropping back down into the cool. For birds, the dolines offer shelter, shade and safety from the heat and the wind in a ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/qfmj-murrawijinie-cave-life-in-the-hollows.mp3 0:06 4 full Murrawijinie Cave: Open, and Owed Respect https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Unlike the strictly protected caves elsewhere on the Nullarbor, Murrawijinie is open to the public, though it asks for caution. The track in is rough, the sinkholes are real drops, and the country is remote and unforgiving. Since June 2013 the cave has lain within the Nullarbor W...

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