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Deep beneath the surface of the continent, memories of the ancient Eromanga Sea are retained in subterranean aquifers and the veins of opal that flash above them in lithic fissures. The excavation of these hidden resources has been critical to the advancement of establishing the settler-colony, Australia, and in perpetuating the ongoing violence of Indigenous dispossession. In this paper, I examine the entangled subterranean figures of aquifers and opals as they surface in the Australian literary archive. I read early twentieth century representations of groundwater usage and opal mining communities in works by Banjo Paterson and Katharine Suzannah Prichard against contemporary evocations of these themes in novels by Janette Turner Hospital (Oyster) and Tara June Winch (Swallow the Air). In doing so, I explore the challenges of representing, reading and interpreting deep watery spaces.*

Beneath the Sea, Inland: Reading Aquifers and Opals in Australian Literature