A Watery View of Australia Trivia Quiz

Answer: Remarkable Cave

The area around Port Arthur consists of dolerite and sandstone. The water from the peninsula and wind erosion has created a cave, which is narrow and rectangular shaped extending 40 metres through cliffs from the sea to a chasm.

Answer: Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre is the largest of the salt lakes in the desert of South Australia. It is the lowest area in Australia being 12 to 17 metres below sea level. The lake is divided in two parts, north and south, with a channel of salt dissecting the middle. The south half is mainly covered with 500 centimetres of hard crusted salt over mud.

The north has only a thin covering of salt over liquid mud.

Answer: Govett's Leap waterfall

Govett's Leap waterfall was actually named after William Govett, a surveyor who discovered it in 1832. Leap is actually a Scottish word meaning a sudden waterfall. Govett's Leap waterfall is more than 300 metres in a single fall and is the largest falls in the Blue Mountains.

Answer: Carnarvon Gorge

Carnarvon Gorge is located 600 kilometres north west of Brisbane. The gorge consists of towering white cliffs reaching in places 200 metres with the main gorge being 30 kilometres long and in places as wide as 400 metres and as narrow as 50 metres.

Answer: Whisky Bay

Wilson's Promontory is a national park in Victoria, Australia, that covers an area of over 48,000 hectares and includes several islands. Parts of the Prom are easily accessible, such as Whisky Bay, Squeaky Beach (so named because as you walk along the beach is makes a squeaky noise), Tidal River and Lilly Pilly Gully.

Other parts can only be reached by hiking or by boat and sites include a lighthouse, a number of coves such as Sealers and Refuge Cove, and the beautiful Five Mile Beach.

Answer: Lake St Clair

Lake St Clair is located at the southern end of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park. It is Australia's deepest natural lake located in a valley with its water depths over 200 metres.

Answer: Katherine Gorge

Katherine Gorge zigzags with 13 straight sections that join at sharp right angles. The walls of the gorge are between 60 to 90 metres high and mostly sheer cliffs, with many stunning caves and rock overhangings. The gorge is only accessible by boat although you are able to walk along the clifftops.

Answer: Leeuwin-Naturaliste Caves

Leeuwin-Naturaliste caves are covered with glistening stalactites and stalagmites. An underground cave is located along 100 kilometres long ridge between the Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste, south western corner of Western Australia, jutting into the Indian Ocean. There are more than 300 caves, from sinkholes to large chambers.

Answer: Shark Bay

Stromatolites, look like rock structures, and they live in the intertidal and subtidal waters of Shark Bay in Western Australia. They range in height from a few millimetres to more than a metre, varying in shape from simple domes to columns and broccoli structures. Stromatolite comes from the Greek meaning stony cushion.

Answer: Horizontal Waterfalls

Horizontal waterfalls are not the usual type of waterfall but consist of strong currents rushing through narrow coastal gorges at enormous speeds so that they resemble a waterfall. Also known as Tidal Waterfalls.