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Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world and second longest cave in the United States, with 220.01 miles (354.07 km) of mapped passageways as of May 2024. [3] [4] [5] It is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota.
This category is for articles related to birds which have adapted to live within the ecological niche of caves. Pages in category "Cave birds" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.These are separate from species that mainly live in above-ground habitats but are also able to live underground (eutroglophiles), and species that are only cave visitors (subtroglophiles and trogloxenes). [1]
Jan and Herb Conn, Dave Schnute and Dwight Deal in the Jewel Cave, 1959. Jan in Janny's Cranny, [28] [29] Jewel Cave, 1959. Dwight Deal, Jan and Herb Conn in the Visitor's Center of Jewel Cave National Monument in 1989 on the 30th anniversary of the Deal-Conn exploration effort. In the background Herb's maps of the cave.
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment. Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialised configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
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Jewel Cave; Lake Cave; Mammoth Cave; Moondyne Cave; Ngilgi Cave (formerly Yallingup Cave) Yanchep Cabaret Cave; Crystal Cave; Yonderup Cave; Northern Territory.