Hampton Tableland

{{Short description|Tableland in Western Australia}}

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Hampton Tableland is a feature that is found at the northern side of the current alignment of the Eyre Highway between Madura and Eucla in Western Australia, at the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain.

Earlier trans-Nullarbor tracks were located along different routes from the current highway.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36994493 |title=ROUND AUSTRALIA BY CAR |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=939 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=2 September 1936 |accessdate=8 August 2016 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95069314 |title=ON THE NULLARBOR |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=46 |issue=11,723 |location=Western Australia |date=20 January 1940 |accessdate=8 August 2016 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The tableland has a number of caves occurring on it, some with notable features.{{Citation | author1=Archer, Michael | title=New information about the Quaternary distribution of the thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) in Australia [Napier Range in Kimberleys, Murray Cave near Perth, and Hampton Tableland, WA] | date=1974 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192608665 | accessdate=14 December 2015 }}

Despite popular conceptions of the Nullarbor being denuded of vegetation or desert-like, a wide range of flora and fauna are well recorded.{{Citation | author1=McColl, W.S. | title=Avifauna of the Hampton Tableland, Hampton Low- lands and Nullabor Plain | journal=Emu | date=1929 | publisher=CSIRO Publishing | volume=29 | issue=2 | pages=91–100 | issn=1448-5540 | doi=10.1071/mu929091}}

The tableland escarpment is a feature along the Eyre Highway, which sits on the edge of the Roe Plains.