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The longest cave in Hungary

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:33:05 +0000

Since yesterday, the longest cave in Hungary is the Szépvlögyi System (29km), after connecting Harcsaszájú-Hideglyuk System (9km) to Pálvölgyi-Mátyáshegyi cave (20km). The connection involved serious digging efforts.

The system has 10 entrances, and can be found under the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The caves are formed mainly in eocene limestone, and all of the entrances have been discovered during quarrying limestone for the buildings of Budapest, the first one at 1902.

The cave formed about 2 million years ago, with thermal waters uprising and dissoulating the tectonically preformed rock. Because of this, the plan of the cave is a big maze, a labyrinth, where it difficult to find

the way without map. Because of climatic conditions on the surface, the temperature of the cave is around 11 degrees celsius.

Since yesterday, the longest cave in Hungary is the Szépvölgyi System (29km), after connecting Harcsaszájú-Hideglyuk System (9km) to Pálvölgyi-Mátyáshegyi cave (20km). The connection involved serious digging efforts. The system has 10 entrances, and can be found under the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The caves are formed mainly in eocene limestone, and all of the entrances have been discovered during quarrying limestone for the buildings of Budapest, the first one at 1902. The cave formed about 2 million years ago, with thermal waters uprising and dissoulating the tectonically preformed rock. Because of this, the plan of the cave is a big maze, a labyrinth, where it difficult to find the way without map. Because of climatic conditions on the surface, the temperature of the cave is around 11 degrees celsius.

Gabor Losonci

The first 100km long cave in Britain

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:13:31 +0000

The Three Counties System have been born with a length of 102km, on Nov 6 2011, when connecting Lost Jhons’s cave to Notts 2 trough a 140m long awful hard dig, putting the crown to 50 years of research in the caves (30 entrances) connected to this system in Yorkshire. original here

Searching for caver

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:07:39 +0000

This is an attempt to locate the discoverer of a cave in Montenegro. A British team re-discovered the cave this month (July 2011). About 30 years ago a team of cavers were exploring an area to the east of Ledenice, above Risan on the Gulf of Kotor. At that time it was most likely to have been a team from eastern Europe.
The cave was discovered by a woman with the initials ‘P B’, and consequently ‘P B 25′ was spray-painted on a rock opposite the cave entrance. Over the cave entrance was painted what looks like ’C 9′. The local resident who supplied this information told us that inside the cave, a pitch was descended to a lake, which required buoyancy aids to cross, and was followed by 3 cascades. I would like to contact the people involved in this exploration, to find out how far they got in the cave, and what they found there. Surely someone must remember the event! I would be very grateful if you would publish this request on Caverinfo, as it seems to be the one website that is widely read by eastern European cavers.

Best wishes,
Joe Duxbury (Gloucester Speleological Society)

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Ox Bel Ha 216.450m!

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:08:48 +0000

With the recent connection of Sistema Naranjal to the system, Sistema Ox Bel Ha became the longest underwater cave in the world, with 217 km of length. The cave is located in Mexico, next to the other giant, Sistema Sac Anctun, 216km. more here

Ordinskaya Cave

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:36:36 +0000

Here, on Espeleobloc, you can read about the interesting Ordinskaya cave, an underwater cave in gypsum rock, which can be found in Russia.