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Aurora Cave Aurora Cave is a limestone cave, part of the Te Ana-au Caves in Fiordland, in the South Island of New Zealand on the western side of a deep glacial trough containing Lake Te Anau. Aurora Cave is separated by a sump from Te Ana-au Cave (a tourist cave). The cave has been formed by the Tunnel Burn, which drains from Lake Orbell in the Takahe valley.〔Paul W. Williams, "A 230 ka record of glacial and interglacial events from Aurora Cave, Fiordland, New Zealand", ''New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics'', 1996, Vol. 39: 225-241. (online )〕 Aurora Cave is 267 metres deep and 6 km. long.〔(Deepest caves in New Zealand )〕〔(Caving areas in New Zealand )〕 Around 1988 a Sub Fossils of an extinct species of Frog were discovered. It was named the Aurora Frog (Leiopelma auroraensis) ==References==
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