AN ANNOTATED LIST OF AUSTRALIAN SHOW CAVES 1977

Site	Management Authority	# Caves open to public	# Staff*	Date of Opening	# visitors
					1970/71	71/72	72/73	73/74	74/75	75/1976
NSW
Abercrombie Caves	Dept of Tourism	6	3FT	1899	10,850	9,571	9,908	11,157	11,457	12,109
Careys Cave (Wee Jasper)	Lands Dept (leased to A.R. Carey)	1	1FT 1PT	1968	3,790	4,869	3,537	3,181	2,939	4,548
Jenolan Caves	Dept of Tourism	8	13FT 10PT	1867	162,453	168,570	176,894	186,980	204,841	186,957
Wellington Caves	Wellington Shire Council (Trustees for Dept of Lands)	2	3FT	1888	27,075	29,734	30,220	28,942	27,964	29,579
Wombeyan Caves	Dept of Tourism	5	4FT	1865	25,810	28,784	29,046	26,113	29,773	30,309
Yarrangobilly Caves	National Parks and Wildlife Service	4	8FT	1888	21,452	27,717	20,416	36,572	33,848	42,437
Victoria
Buchan Caves	Buchan Caves Advisory committee, Dept of Crown Lands & Survey	2	7FT	1908 1913	53,795	61,780	66,161	77,340	78,199	81,478
Murrindal Caves (near Buchan)	Dept of Crown Lands & Survey (privately operated under permit)	2	2PT	1972	Only open at Easter and 3-4 weeks at Christmas, 500/year
Princess Margaret Rose Cave	Forests Commission	1	1FT 2PT	1941	12,964	16,847	21,273	23,021	25,495	26,843
South Australia
Kelly Hill Cave (Kangaroo Island)	Flora & Fauna Board to 1972, NPW since 1972	1	2FT 3PT	1926	8,389	9,305	14,211	17,798	17,561	18,506
Naracoorte Caves	S.A. Govt Tourist Bureau 1912-71, NPWS since 1971	3	2FT 3PT	1894 1900 1908	31,385	32,510	38,891	55,397	66,995	66,697
Tantanoola Cave	S.A. Govt Tourist Bureau to 1972, NPWS since 1972, Under licence to district Council Tantanoola to 1975, under licence to Millicent Council since 1975	1	1FT	1931	32,570	33,500	36,800	47,155	40,808	43,00
Queensland
Cammoo Caves	Mr & Mrs Eckert, Owners	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Chillagoe Caves	NPWS. Dept of Forestry to Jan 1976	3	5FT	1965	8,000	9,000	10,000	11,000	12,000	13,000
Olsens Cave near Rockhampton	T&R Olsen Owners	1 17 known	2FT 1PT	1882	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Western Australia
Margaret River Caves	Augusta Margaret River Tourist Bureau	3	3FT 7PT	1902 1904 1960	49,975	49,112	64,691	60,000	71,109	74,927
Yallingup Caves	Busselton Tourist Bureau	1	2FT 1PT	1900	13,776	12,894	16,418	17,303	19,043	20,206
Yanchep Caves	NPA (National Parks Board 1957-76)	2	2FT 1PT	?	71,557	70,247	68,210	72,342	69,864	71,973
Tasmania
Exit Cave (Ida Bay)	Dept of Lands (leased to RK Skinner)	1	1PT	1976						100
Gunns Plains Cave	NPWS (Leased to DJ Wing)	1	1PT	1939	4,446	5,332	5,582	7,256	5,436	5,098
Hastings Cave	Dept of Tourism to 1.7.76; NPWS since	1	3FT	1939	22,228	23,886	24,350	23,697	26,253	29,222
Mole Creek Caves	Dept of Tourism to 1.7.75, NPWS since 1975	2	5FT	1908 1912	20,919	22,487	24,967	32,073	39,088	39,971
Northern Territory
Cutta Cutta Cave Katherine	Northern Territory Reserves Board (leased to private operator 1973-75)	1	2FT	1973	NA	NA	NA	NA	2,016	2,200

* Staff are indicated as full-time (FT) and part-time (PT)