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Rat's Nest Cave Alberta: 1,450 [3] 245 4,003 Located beneath Grotto Mountain near Exshaw. Access is by guided tour only. Saint-Alban caves Quebec: Located in Saint-Alban: Saint-Leonard Cavern Quebec: 250 Located in Saint-Léonard. Original cave is 35 metres long with a depth of 8 metres; [8] a second 250-metre cave was discovered in 2017. [9 ...
It exhibits sixteen different karstic geological features, of which seven are provincially significant, [2] and is considered to be the best example of karst topography found in Ontario. [3] The area is composed of parcels of land that are provincially, municipally and privately owned. It received ANSI-ES designation on February 13, 2003. [1]
In 1978, the Quebec Speleological Society reopened the cave for study. It was subsequently declared a historic landmark, and tours were set up. Until 2017, the cave was thought to be comparatively small underground structure, at 35 metres long with a depth of 8 metres. [1] However, a second cave was discovered in 2017 which measures 250 metres ...
Often described as the prettiest town in Ontario, the well-preserved 19th-century village is also the heart of Ontario Wine Country, where icewine (known as “liquid gold” among these parts) is ...
The caves. The Warsaw Caves are a group of caverns, a geological feature located in the Warsaw Caves Conservation Area near the village of Warsaw, Ontario, Canada. The caves have long passages and mostly small open areas which are accessible to spelunkers. [1] [2] The caves are cavities in the limestone rock which underlies the whole area. [3]
Devil's Rock (also known as Devils Rock; Anishinaabe: Mani-doo Aja-bikong [1] or Manidoo Wabikong) is a granite escarpment located 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, Canada. The cliffs rise 300 feet (91 m) above Lake Timiskaming and extend nearly as far underwater as they do above, giving Devil's Rock a cliff face roughly ...
Today, the First Nations people of Ontario call the carvings Kinomagewapkong, meaning "the rocks that teach" or "the Teaching Rocks". Originally two to three inches deep the 1200 carvings were made using gneiss hammers to incise human figures, animals, and a dominant figure whose head apparently represents the sun, onto the soft, gently sloping ...
Luc-Antoine Couturier/Québec City The only remaining walled city in the Americas north of Mexico, Québec City is like a museum within itself. One of North America's oldest cities ...