Bulmer Cavern
| Bulmer Cavern
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 Entrance to the Bulmer Cavern . |
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| Location: | Mount Owen | |
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Geographic location: |
41 ° 33 '29.9 " S , 172 ° 31' 7.7" O | |
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| Discovery: | 1985 | |
| Overall length: | 71,860 m | |
| Level difference: | 755 m | |
The Bulmer Cavern is New Zealand's longest cave system , running 71.86 kilometers through the Mount Owen region in the northwest of the South Island . The cave system is the third deepest cave in New Zealand at 755 meters.
In the limestone and marble mountain ranges northwest of Nelson , the Takaka Hill , Mount Arthur and Mount Owen mountains are the deepest and three longest cave systems in New Zealand.
The cave was discovered in 1985. The first expedition to the higher sections took place in the same year.
Web links
- Caving Areas In New Zealand . NZ Speleological Society, archived from the original onFebruary 8, 2007; accessed on August 8, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cave Statistics . New Zealand Speleological Society , accessed April 21, 2018 .
- ^ Andrew Board: New Zealand's longest cave getting bigger . In: The Nelson Mail . January 12, 2010. Retrieved March 24, 2010.