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 current alignment of the Eyre Highway between Madura and Eucla in Western Australia, at the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain.

Earlier trans-Nullarbor tracks were located along different routes from the current highway.[1][2]

The tableland has a number of caves occurring on it, some with notable features.[3]

Despite popular conceptions of the Nullarbor being denuded of vegetation or desert-like, a wide range of flora and fauna are well recorded.[4]

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

Notes

  1. ^ "ROUND AUSTRALIA BY CAR". The Courier-mail. No. 939. Queensland, Australia. 2 September 1936. p. 11. Retrieved 8 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "ON THE NULLARBOR". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 46, no. 11, 723. Western Australia. 20 January 1940. p. 1. Retrieved 8 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ McColl, W.S. (1929), "Avifauna of the Hampton Tableland, Hampton Low- lands and Nullabor Plain", Emu, 29 (2), CSIRO Publishing: 91–100, doi:10.1071/mu929091, ISSN 1448-5540