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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.
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 ...
A cave at Xtabi. 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 ...
There are over 1000 cave systems in the island of Jamaica. [1] Listed here are those for which Wikipedia articles exist. The full list as of 2020 can be found on the Jamaica Caves Organisation website or as of 1997 in the book Jamaica Underground .
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]
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]
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 is a large river cave in Manchester Parish in west-central Jamaica. At 3505 meters it is the longest cave known in the island. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is susceptible to flooding.