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Tasmanian Geographic — a geographical journal exploring the natural, historical and cultural landscapes of lutruwita/Tasmania.

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For Your Eyes Only - Cave Diving in Central Tasmania

by Janine McKinnon
Department of Terrestrial Exploration
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2015-08-31

Cave diving is perhaps the most technically demanding exploration endeavour this side of astronautics. Australians have been active participants in aquatic cave exploration, and there are extensive and famous cave dives on the Nullarbor and at Mount Gambier, South Australia. In Tasmania, the caves are tighter, colder, and more claustrophobic, but there are wild places that nobody ever sees....except a few...

For Your Eyes Only is a highly decorated chamber in Tasmania. It is protected by a 230 metre long  waterfilled passage. The water temperature is between four and eight degrees C, visibility in the sump varies between zero and three metres, and the current can be very high.

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Janine McKinnon
About the author

Janine McKinnon

Janine has been a caver, diver, bushwalker and bad cross country skier for several decades. Caving, and diving, have been the major focus of her leisure activities for most of her adult life. She initially moved to Tasmania from the mainland of Australia for the caving, and other outdoor pursuits, and she has lived there now for 34 years. She has continued these activities in Tasmania, and around the world, throughout that time, with a several year break to go sailing. Now retired from professional work, she continues to cave, cave dive, bushwalk and open water dive with enthusiasm, and the release from time constraints that retirement from paid work brings.

Articles in Issue 36

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  • TG #36by Editor
  • The Remarkable Acellular Slime Mouldsby Sarah Lloyd
  • The Eastern Islands: Over on the Kiwi Coastby Arwen Dyer
  • For Your Eyes Only - Cave Diving in Central Tasmaniaby Janine McKinnon
  • Almost a Flowering Plant: the Story of Gigaspermum repensby David Tng

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