Vrtiglavica, also Vrtoglavica (both from
Slovene ''vrtoglavica'' 'vertigo'), is a
karst shaft on the
Kanin Plateau, part of the
Kanin Mountains
280px, Big Mount Kanin
The Kanin Mountains or the Canin Mountains ( Resian: ''Ćanen'', fur, Mont Cjanine), mostly simply Kanin or Canin, are a mountain range in the Western Julian Alps, on the border of Slovenia and Italy. Their highest summ ...
,
Western Julian Alps, on the Slovene side of the border between
Slovenia
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and
Italy
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. It has the deepest known
single vertical drop in the world, at .
[http://www.caverbob.com/pit.htm] The cave formed in a
glaciokarst landscape; that is, a
karst landscape that was subjected to
Pleistocene glacial activity.
The total depth of the cave is . It contains one of the tallest
cave waterfalls in the world; the estimated height of the falls is . It was discovered in the summer of 1996 by Italian speleologists and the bottom was reached on October 12, 1996, by a joint Slovene–Italian expedition.
References
Caves of the Slovene Littoral
Julian Alps
Karst caves
Subterranean waterfalls
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