Cross Cave
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| Cross Cave | |
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| Cold Cave under Cross Mountain | |
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| Location | southeastern Slovenia |
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| Depth | 32 m (105 ft) |
| Length | 8,273 m (27,142 ft) |
| Discovery | 1832 |
| Geology | dolomite, limestone |
| Entrances | 1 |
| Access | by foot and by boat |
| Cave survey | plan |
| Registry | Cave E-Cadastre[1] |
Cross Cave[2] (Template:Langx, Template:Langx[3]), also named Cold Cave under Cross Mountain (Script error: No such module "Lang".), is a cave in Slovenia's Lož Valley, in the area between the Lož Karst Field, Cerknica Karst Field, and Bloke Plateau. The cave is named after nearby Holy Cross Church in Podlož.[4] The cave is particularly noted for its chain of subterranean lakes. Extremely slow-growing calcareous formations (up to 0.1 mm per year) and their fragility are the main obstacle to large-scale tourism in the cave and limit daily tourist visits to the flooded part of the cave to four people. As a result, the Cross Cave is among the best-preserved caves, opened to the public in Slovenia. The cave was prepared for visits in the 1950s by the Lož Valley Tourist Association. It was later managed by the Ljubljana Cave Research Society. Since the 1990s, it has been cared for by the Friends of Cross Cave Association (Script error: No such module "Lang".). With 45 species of organisms, some not discovered until 2000, Cross Cave is the fourth-largest cave ecosystem in the world in terms of biodiversity.[5] The cave was first documented in 1832, but the part of the cave that includes lakes and stream passages was first explored by Slovene cavers in 1926.
On January 6, 2024, five people were trapped in the cave due to high water levels caused by heavy rainfall.[6][7] They were rescued on January 8, 2024.[8]
Course
At Calvary (Script error: No such module "Lang"., the best-known symbol of Cross Cave), the cave splits into two branches: the Muds to the north and the Variegated Passage to the northeast. The passage through the Muds is more difficult, and so most visitors choose to continue through the Variegated Passage, which requires the use of small boats. Cross Cave continues into New Cross Cave (Script error: No such module "Lang".). In the direction from the entrance to the cave, the Variegated Passage is the left gallery of Cross Cave at the confluence with the Muds at Cavalry. The access requires the use of boats. Part of the way along the Variegated Passage is a side gallery named the Matjaž Passage (Script error: No such module "Lang".), and it contains several large columns. Continuing along the Variegated Passage, visitors enter the Crystal Mountain (Script error: No such module "Lang".), the largest room in the cave. They can climb a mountainous pile of collapsed rocks to a point well above the stream.
Archeological site
Cross Cave exhibits one of the largest deposits of cave bear skeletons in this part of Europe. Over two thousand cave bear bones have been found in the cave.[5] In addition to the abundance of cave bear bones, ceramic and lyrical remains from the eneolithic period were discovered at the entrance of the cave at the beginning of the first lake.
Incident
On 6 January 2024 at 8:00 a.m., a group of three, together with a guide and a trainee guide, went on a tour of the cave, although it was unsuitable for a visit at that time due to weather conditions. When the group had not returned by the scheduled time of 3:00 p.m., other guides went to look for them. Failing to locate the group, the Cave Rescue Service (JRS) [9] was activated at approximately 5:25 p.m.
At around 4:00 a.m., the rescuers found the missing persons at a location in a cave called Cross Mountain, on a ledge elevated Template:Cvt above the high water level, located about Template:Cvt from the entrance to the cave under Cross Mountain. All those were safe and in good health.[10] They were evacuated on the afternoon of 8 January.[11]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Križna jama" (in Slovenian). Cave E-Cadastre. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Copeland, Fanny Susan; Kuščar, Ludvik (1930). "The Unexplored Caves of Slovenia". Discovery: The Popular Journal of Knowledge. 11: 160.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Laas und Čabar (map, 1:75,000). Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. 1903.
- ^ Notranjski regijski park: Križna jama Script error: No such module "webarchive". Template:In lang
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prelovšek, Mitja. "Križna jama" [Cross Cave]. In Šmid Hribar, Mateja; Golež, Gregor; Podjed, Dan; Kladnik, Drago; Erhartič, Bojan; Pavlin, Primož; Ines, Jerele (eds.). Enciklopedija naravne in kulturne dediščine na Slovenskem – DEDI [Encyclopedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia] (in slovenščina). Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."5 people are trapped in a cave in Slovenia after heavy rainfall causes water levels to rise". AP News. 2024-01-07. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rescue begins for five trapped deep inside flooded Slovenian cave". Reuters. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Peterica po skoraj treh dneh rešena iz Križne jame. Vsi so zdravi in v dobrem psihičnem stanju". RTV SLO (in slovenščina). Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cave Rescue Service". Archived from the original on 8 February 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Križna jama: 'Evakuacije pri teh razmerah vsaj do jutri ne bo'" [Cross Cave: 'No Evacuation under these Conditions until at least Tomorrow']. 24ur.com (in slovenščina). 6 January 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Five People Rescued from Cave after Two Days". The Slovenia Times. Slovenian Press Agency. 8 January 2024.
External links
- Page Template:Sister-inline/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Sister project logo". Media related to Script error: No such module "Commons link". at Wikimedia Commons
- Cross Cave on Geopedia
- Cross Cave. Official webpage.
- Cross Cave. A map and a virtual panorama.
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