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The Jamaican Caves Organisation (JCO) is the national caving organisation for Jamaica, and a member of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS). Activities include speleological research, exploration, mapping, and pro bono assistance to the National Environmental and Planning Agency (NEPA), the Water Resources Authority (WRA), the ...
Bad Hole Cave – an impressively large rising cave in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica. This is a limestone Karst region that is very rich in caves. [2] Belmont Cave – also known as Drip Cave, it is a white limestone dry cave in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica; Carambie Cave – a large, relatively dry, white limestone cave in Trelawny Parish [3]
The Jamaican Caves Organisation (JCO) was established in 2002 by Ronald Stefan Stewart (ORCID: 0009-0008-7866-4057), Ivor Conolley, and Martel Taylor, with partial funding and technical assistance from The Nature Conservancy, and the Windsor Research Centre.
Jackson's Bay Cave is a very large cave on the Portland Ridge in Clarendon near the south coast of Jamaica. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It was discovered in 1964. It is part of the Jackson bay cave system, consisting of 14 unconnected caves, and over 9200m of cumulated caves passages mapped since then. [2]
Dunn's Hole is a large chamber cave in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. It consists of a very large chamber approximately 200 metres long, 100 metres wide and 80 metres high, located at the bottom of a 200-metre pit. [1] It is the largest known underground chamber in Jamaica. The main chamber contains a large stalagmite approximately 8 metres high. [1]
The caves explored have been compiled of Arawak remains suggesting the use of caves as burial sites by the Taino communities. Through studying these burial sites significant evidence has been found to establish that during the early colonial occupation of Jamaica adventure the White Marl was still inhabited during the Spanish’s time with the ...
The three figures were found by a surveyor in a cave near the settlement of Vere in the Carpenters Mountains in June 1792. They were exhibited for the first time at the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1799 by Isaac Alves Rebello. [3] The figures' subsequent provenance after this remains obscure before their acquisition by the British Museum.
Gourie Cave, near Christiana, is the longest of the over 100 caves in the parish, as well as the longest known cave in Jamaica (3505m). [3] Smokey Hole Cave, in Cross Keys, is the deepest known cave on the island (194m). [4] Oxford Cave, near Auchtembeddie, in the NW part of the parish, is another of the major speleological sites found in ...