For the 97% of the planet, that’s 2100m
Amazing, thank you. I had genuinely no concept at all of how deep the cave actually was lol
According to this there are about 91 different definitions of league throughout human history, so I thought the most reasonable way to deal with your question was to calculate them all:
Cave Depth in Leagues
NGL being over a mile underground sounds horrifying and amazing at the same time
It is horrifying. They made a movie about it. It’s called The Descent. Never will I ever go exploring a cave.
In case anyone else is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veryovkina_Cave
Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave
I’ve been bamboozled, neither of these are of Veryovkina. They’re of Ellison Cave in Georgia, US not Georgia.
It might be because I’ve just woken up, but I feel like I’m missing the joke, where was Ellison Cave mentioned? Or is this that you were taught the deepest cave in the world was in Georgia, but the wrong Georgia? 😳
Either way, those pics are both fantastic and terrifying…
lol, these pics are what shown up when I searched Veryovkina which is in Abkazhia, Georgia; however, they are of the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Georgia, US. It seems more than a few sites have confused them both. I suspect the deepest cave doesn’t look as “Fantastic” as this.
Also:
August 2024 – during another expedition of the PSC the cave depth was decreased to 2,209 meters (7,247 ft). The previously established connection between the stream at the bottom of the cave and the Blue Lake (Голубое озеро (Абхазия)) on the surface enabled the precise measurement of the cave depth by taking into account the difference in heights between the entrance and the bottom siphon using a high-precision GNSS receiver EFT M3.
Here is a gmaps view of the cave entrance, Blue Lake is at the foot of the mountain.
That first pic is the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Walker County, Georgia, USA.
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How it looks
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What it looks like
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It’s a very common mistake. Probably one of those areas where English is just plain odd when compared to others.
I’d like to think of me as being a somewhat competent speaker of English (degree in English, written English heaps better than spoken, I’m sure), but some of these very small quirks are just something I’ve either never learned or hadn’t bothered to remember lol
