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Cooleman Caves - NSW

Cooleman Caves

Tourist Attraction

Position

DEG: -35.624358 148.680655

DMS: 35º 37' 27.69" S 148º 40' 50.34" E

UTM: 55 H 6056414mN 652196mE

Altitude: 1229.13m

Place Type

Recreation - Tourist Attraction

Location

57.19kms SouthWest of Canberra - Driving 249 km (3 hours 31 mins)
410.65kms NorthEast of Melbourne - Driving 618 km (7 hours 8 mins)
814.15kms North of Hobart - Driving 1352 km (1 day 7 hours)
993.74kms SouthWest of Brisbane - Driving 1350 km (15 hours 44 mins)

Address & Contact

Cooleman NSW

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Web: https://forkword.com/cooleman/coolcave.htm#cooleman

Information

Not all of the caves on the Cooleman Plain at Blue Waterholes are open to the public. If you want to enter any other cave, beyond a few meters of the entrance, you MUST have a permit from the NPWS. Some of the caves at Blue Waterholes have features which must not be disturbed (like bat roosts, or delicate formations, or ancient bone deposits) and some are dangerously unstable.

You will be glad to know however that most of the more interesting and accessible caves are open to the public.

All the caves at Blue Waterholes should have a small metal tag nailed to the rock near the cave entrance. This will have on it a 3-digit code that is the cave's number. All the cave numbers on the Cooleman Plains start with CP. This can obviously be useful to help you work out if you have found the right entrance or not.

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Mount Ginini at 02/10:30am EST

Distance from Cooleman Caves 13.41km NE

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
7.0°C	3.4°C	36%	-7.0°C	hPa	0.0mm	SW	4km/hr 2knots	6km/hr 3knots

Closest Climatic Station

Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve

Distance from Cooleman Caves 31.23km NE

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	27.2	26.3	23.6	19.1	15.2	11.8	11.0	12.8	15.7	18.9	22.1	24.9
Mean Min. °C	12.4	12.5	10.0	6.6	3.6	1.4	0.1	1.1	3.5	6.1	9.0	10.8
Mean Rain mm	81.8	73.7	67.6	63.1	65.3	65.1	83.8	92.7	90.2	87.7	91.0	65.3