Abstract South Australia’s State Heritage Register contains 2294 listed places, the majority of which are from the ‘Built’ environment, ranging from settlers’ huts, community buildings, historical industrial sites to magnificent stone mansions. Only 96 places are linked to the ‘Natural’ environment. The Register listings protect heritage places from alteration, damage or removal without formal prior consultation, compulsory under the South Australian Development Act. ‘Natural’ environments are landscape-based and oriented towards Geological, Archaeological, Palaeontological and Speleological heritage (‘GAPS heritage’). A process to provide a greater balance between ‘Natural’ and ‘Built’ listings has initiated a series of State Heritage ‘Natural’ environment assessments, mostly of single sites. Two individual caves in the Naracoorte Caves National Park are already entered in the State Heritage Register as single sites. However, an innovative broader multiple-site nomination has focused on the many different but significant GAPS features contained within the 25 caves of the Naracoorte Caves National Park, providing a further level of protection for the land and the caves’ exteriors and interiors. The example of the Naracoorte Caves draws attention to the number of important land and coastal karst (limestone) features across South Australia that were generated by steady geological uplift of three large sections of Oligocene–Miocene limestone—the Nullarbor Plain, the Murray Basin and the Gambier Karstfield (which includes Naracoorte and Mount Gambier), resulting in specific karst forms worthy of a broader coordinating management approach across South Australian karst parks.

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南澳大利亚地质学和国家遗产名录：Naracoorte Caves 综合体和喀斯特环境地理保护的一个例子

摘要 南澳大利亚州遗产名录包含 2294 个列入名单的地方，其中大部分来自“建成”环境，从定居者的小屋、社区建筑、历史工业遗址到宏伟的石头豪宅。只有 96 个地方与“自然”环境有关。根据《南澳大利亚发展法》，登记册列表保护遗产地免于未经正式事先咨询而被改动、损坏或拆除。“自然”环境以景观为基础，面向地质、考古、古生物和洞穴学遗产（“GAPS 遗产”）。在“自然”和“建成”列表之间提供更大平衡的过程已经启动了一系列国家遗产“自然”环境评估，主要是单一地点。Naracoorte Caves 国家公园内的两个独立洞穴已作为单一地点列入国家遗产名录。然而，一个创新的更广泛的多地点提名集中在纳拉库特洞穴国家公园 25 个洞穴中包含的许多不同但重要的 GAPS 特征，为土地和洞穴的外部和内部提供了进一步的保护。Naracoorte 洞穴的例子引起了人们对南澳大利亚重要的陆地和沿海喀斯特（石灰岩）特征的数量的关注，这些特征是由渐新世-中新世石灰岩的三个大段——纳拉伯平原、墨累盆地和Gambier Karstfield（包括 Naracoorte 和 Mount Gambier），