Hampton Tableland

Eastern end of the escarpment of the tableland from Eyre Highway heading east

Hampton Tableland is a feature that is found at the northern side of the Eyre Highway between Madura and Eucla in Western Australia, at the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain.

The tableland has a significant number of caves, some with notable features.[1]

Despite popular conceptions of the Nullarbor being denuded of vegetation or desert-like, a wide range of flora and fauna are well recorded.[2]

The tableland escarpment is a feature along the Eyre Highway, which sits on the edge of the Roe Plains.

Notes

  1. ↑ Archer, Michael (1974), New information about the Quaternary distribution of the thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) in Australia [Napier Range in Kimberleys, Murray Cave near Perth, and Hampton Tableland, WA], retrieved 14 December 2015
  2. ↑ McColl, W.S (1929), "Avifauna of the Hampton Tableland, Hampton Low- lands and Nullabor Plain", Emu (CSIRO Publishing) 29 (2): 91 – 100, ISSN 1448-5540
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