List of caves in New Zealand
The following is a list of some of the more well known caves and caverns in New Zealand.
Not all caves have an official name as set by the New Zealand Geographic Board. The national caving association maintains maps of all known surveyed caves and the name is generally allocated by the group who first discovered the cave.
North Island caves
[edit]- Many lava tubes and lava caves in the Auckland volcanic field, including:
- Waitomo district:
South Island caves
[edit]- Broken River Cave
- Cathedral Caves
- Cave Stream
- Clifden Limestone Caves
- Honeycomb Hill Cave
- Metro Cave / Te Ananui Cave
- Mount Arthur caves:
- Moncks Cave
- Mount Owen caves:
- Rawhiti Cave
- Riwaka Resurgence
- Tākaka Hill caves:
- Te Ana-au Caves
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Grzelewski, Derek. "Tales of the underworld". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
