List of caves in New Zealand
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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
- Many lava tubes and lava caves in the Auckland volcanic field, including:
- Waitomo district:
South Island caves
- 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
References
- ^ Grzelewski, Derek. "Tales of the underworld". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use New Zealand English from August 2019
- All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English
- Use dmy dates from August 2019
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Caves of New Zealand
- Lists of caves by country
- Lists of landforms of New Zealand
- Lists of tourist attractions in New Zealand