Professional paper

DEEP CAVES OF THE NORTH VELEBIT

VLADIMIR BOŽIĆ

Abstract

The speleological objects on the central part of north Velebit have been under exploration for seventy years now (from 1930). During that period more than 300 caves and pits were found and investigated. The important discoveries, however, started to be realized some ten years ago after Luka's cave was found. Meaning, from the 1992 were discovered 18 caves deeper than 120m and the two deeper than 1300 m (Luka's cave-Trojma system 1392 m deep, the Slovakiam cave 1201 in deep). In these explorations were realized some results having the world-wide importance i.e. Luka's cave is the most vertical in the world, diving in it on the depth of 1335 m (length 50 m, depth 6 in) is the deepest in the world. Then there is Meduza's cave (- 707m) with its internal vertical altitude the first in the world, while Patkov gust cave (- 553 m) with its outside vertical altitude is the second in the world. Beside Croatians, in these explorations cooperated also the speleologists from Slovakia and Poland. Luka's cave was visited until now by the Hungarian, Belgian. Dutch and Lithuanian speleologists. The explorations will continue.

Keywords

DEEP CAVES; THE NORTH VELEBIT

Hrčak ID:

71529

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/71529

Publication date:

27.12.2002.

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