Outback Queensland’s volcanic marvel

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“You’re looking at a section of cave that you will remember until your last breath,” Savannah Guide Bram Collins says. And he’s right. Behind him, a gargantuan chamber rears out of the earth, its cathedral ceiling painted in a mosaic of mineral-rich colours. At the entrance, butterflies dance in the cool air and long vines dangle from centuries-old fig trees.

It’s hard to believe I’m standing in what was once a lava superhighway. When she erupted, 190,000 years ago, Undara Volcano unleashed a sea of molten magma three times the volume of Sydney Harbour. Surging down ancient riverbeds, the lava formed a skin as it cooled and drained, leaving behind what eventually became hollow tubes of volcanic rock.

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