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Sarma cave

The 3rd deepest cave in the world

The 131st longest cave in the world

1,830m · Depth
0km · Length

Sarma Cave, located in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, is the third-deepest recorded cave in the world. Its depth (1830 m) was measured in 2012 by a team led by Pavel Rudko. The cave was discovered in 1990 by caver Sergey Shipitsin during a research expedition of the Arabika caving club from Irkutsk, led by Alexander Osintsev.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More caves in Georgia

  1. Veryovkina Cave2,212 m deep
  2. Krubera Cave2,199 m deep
  3. New Athos Cave183 m deep
  4. Bgheri Cave Natural Monument20 m deep
  5. Solkota Cave Natural Monument32 m deep

Other notable caves worldwide

  1. Mammoth Cave · Australia686 km
  2. Sistema Sac Actun · Mexico119.2 m
  3. Lechuguilla Cave · United States489 m
  4. Optymistychna Cave · Ukraine20 m
  5. Veryovkina Cave · Georgia2,212 m
  6. Krubera Cave · Georgia2,199 m
  7. Clearwater Cave · Malaysia109 km
  8. Paraw Cave · Iran751 m