Tablelands Regional
Volcanic plateau of crater lakes formed by explosive eruptions under ten thousand years ago.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tablelands region near Cairns follows a Ngadjon-jii story of two hunters, a rainbow serpent, and a camp swallowed by the earth, and what happened when geologists began drilling into the crater lakes scattered across this plateau to test how old the story really is. It moves between ancient oral tradition and volcanic science, asking how a memory could survive without ever being written down. Best heard standing at the edge of one of the tableland's round, spring-fed lakes.
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