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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.
The Iranian Cave and Speleology Association (ICSA) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) consisting of cavers and speleologists in Iran who are interested in exploring, surveying, researching and protecting the caves of Iran. The International Speleology Union (UIS) helped with the foundation of the ICSA by training cavers and supporting them.
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 ] Coffee River Cave – a large river cave in Manchester Parish in west-central Jamaica, it is 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) in length and at an elevation ...
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 .
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
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.
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 matter was settled by the Jamaican Surveyor-General, who decided that though Thomas had been the first to scale the highest peak, and explore the ridge in a north–south direction, Routledge had traversed the valley and further range beyond: so he had first "actually crossed them from west to east".