Empress Spring WA @ ExplorOz

Empress Spring is a large underground cavern in a flat area of rock. It has a chain ladder that allows you to descend about 10 metres to the cave floor. The cave roof was blackened and is almost tar like in places by aboriginal fires lit over thousands of years. Off to the east corner of the main cave is a very small tunnel that goes even deeper and leads down to two very small caverns. One needs to be small to wriggle down on all fours down a tunnel another 15 metres to a sandy base, where you dig down to water. Don't forget a torch because it is very dark and there are snakes.

Empress Spring is accessible from either the Gunbarrel Highway to the north or the Great Central Road to the south. J. Rowlands and his wife rediscovered Empress Spring in the late 1960’s.

Temperature

Feels Like

Rel. Humidity

Dew Point

Pressure

Rainfall

Wind Direction

Wind Speed

Gusts

23.6°C

21.4°C

32%

6.1°C

-hPa

1016.9mm

7km/h
4knots

-km/h
-knots

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Mean Max. °C

38.3

36.8

33.8

29.8

25.2

21.1

23.6

28.6

32.5

35.4

37.2

Mean Min. °C

23.3

22.8

20.0

16.1

10.9

7.0

5.7

7.3

11.8

16.2

19.3

22.1

Mean Rain mm

28.8

53.1

32.7

22.1

16.7

15.0

12.5

7.6

3.5

4.8

11.0

23.8

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Empress Spring was named by Explorer David Wynford Carnegie as “a humble tribute to the world-wide rejoicings over the long reign of our Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.” David Carnegie was shown this water hole by local aborigines on his exploratory travels in 1896. Carnegie and his companions arrived at the spring, guided by a captive aboriginal on 10 October 1896 after many days without finding water. Here they stayed until the morning of 16 October 1896.