World Heritage

Naracoorte Caves National Park World Heritage Fossil Site is one of Australia's 17 World Heritage Areas. The park was listed on the World Heritage List for the extensive fossil deposits found within the caves that have revealed so much about Australia's marsupial heritage.

You can see several fossil areas on a range of tours led by professional guides.

One cave is home to the threatened Southern Bentwing Bat that returns to the cave each spring to give birth and raise their young. This special annual event can be seen via infrared technology in the Bat Observation Centre, where you can take a peek into the bats' normally inaccessible world and observe their daily activities. The nightly exit of thousands of bats is a spectacular sight.

Also at the park, the Wonambi Fossil Centre is a re-created scene of Naracoorte Caves as it may have looked 200,000 years ago. It features life-size models of the megafauna in a simulated habitat of the era.