The Mendip Cave Registry and Archive (MCRA) has the object of recording and indexing all available information on caves, mines, rock shelters and other sites of speleological interest primarily in the area of
Bristol
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Somerset
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Wiltshire
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in South West England.
History
The MCRA was formed as the Mendip Cave Registry in January 1956.
In 1969 the Registry ceased to function but it was revived in 1994 by Dave Irwin. In 2007 it was decided to expand the Registry to include archive material and the name was amended to Mendip Cave Registry and Archive.
Publications
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Related
There are also some established cave registers for other parts of the United Kingdom. These are:
Mendip cave registry(already mentioned)
Welsh Cave Registeroperated by the Cambrian Caving Counci
established in the 1960
The Caves of Scotlandpresented in the form of a comprehensive one-page bibliography
Southern Ireland Cave Bibliographyoperated by
UBSS
* The Derbyshire Cave Registry, which doesn't have a web presence, but was established in 197
* The authoritative cave catalogue in Yorkshire has historically been the Northern Caves volume
but more recently cave survey data has been submitted t
BCA cave survey database
International
Government organized national cave registries are common in countries where such karst features is relevant to infrastructure projects, such as water supply and road building.
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
- The Austrian cave directory is jointly organized by Verband Osterreichischer Hohlenforscher and the speleological department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. It is organized by mountain rang
http://spelix.hoehlenforschung.at/]
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Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
- The Speleological Association of Slovenia has a database of more than 10,000 caves in its Cadastre collected over 100 year
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Australia
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- The Karst Index Database run by the Australian Speleological Federation contains more than 6500 feature
Further information can be found on th
UIS Informatics Commission contacts page
See also
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Caving in the United Kingdom
Recreational caving in the United Kingdom dates back to the mid-19th century. The four major caving areas of the United Kingdom are North Yorkshire, South Wales, Derbyshire, and the Mendips. Minor areas include Devon, North Wales, and the Scottish ...
References
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Caving organisations in the United Kingdom
Mendip Hills