|Krubera Cave (Voronya Cave)| |Depth||2,191 m (7,188 ft)|
|Length||13.432 km (8.346 mi)| |Translation||Crows' Cave
(Russian)| The Krubera Cave (or the Voronya Cave, sometimes
spelled the Voronja Cave) is the deepest known cave on Earth. It
is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagrinsky Range of the
Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia,[note 1] the
north-westernt part of Georgia. The difference in the altitude
of the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,191 ±
20 metres (7,188 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest-known cave in
the world in 2001 when the expedition of the Ukrainian
Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,710 m (5,610 ft)
which exceeded the depth of the previously deepest cave,
Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, by 80 m. In 2004, for the
first time in the history of speleology, the Ukrainian
Speleological Association expedition reached a depth greater
than 2,000 m, and explored the cave to −2,080 m (−6,824 ft). The
current maximum depth of 2,191 m was reached