The
Krubera Cave (or the Voronya Cave sometimes spelled Voronja Cave) is
the deepest known cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of
the Gagrinsky Range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of
Abkhazia
The difference in the altitude of the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,191 ± 20 metres (7,188 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest-
The difference in the altitude of the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,191 ± 20 metres (7,188 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest-
known cave in the world in 2001
when the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a
depth of 1,710 m (5,610 ft) which exceeded the depth of the previously
deepest cave, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, by 80 m. In 2004,
for the first time in the history of speleology, the Ukrainian
Speleological Association expedition reached a depth greater than 2,000
m, and explored the cave to −2,080 m (−6,824 ft). The current maximum
depth of 2,191 m was reached during a 46 m dive by Gennadiiy Samokhin
into the terminal sump during the expedition of the Ukrainian
Speleological Association in August–September 2007. The cave remains the
only known cave on Earth deeper than 2,000 metres.
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