Hölloch Cave
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thumb|Cavers in the Hölloch The Hölloch () is a long cave in the municipality Muotathal in Switzerland. In addition to being the third longest cave in Europe and the 11th longest of the world, it is also notable for having a depth of . The Hölloch is an example of a karst cave system.
Key facts
- Cave.name
- Hölloch
- Cave.map
- Switzerland
- Cave.relief
- 1
- Cave.map_caption
- Location in Switzerland
- Cave.label_position
- left
- Cave.mark
- Gfi-set01-cave.svg
- Cave.mark_width
- 10
- Cave.location
- Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
- Cave.discovery
- 1875
- Cave.geology
- Limestone
- Cave.show_cave
- 1906
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cave
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Schwyz
- Official website
- www.trekking.ch/hoelloch
- Image
- Speleo 2403.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hölloch Cave
- mountain range
- Alps
- time of discovery or invention
- 1875-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Exploration
- Tourism
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Cavers in the Hölloch The Hölloch () is a long cave in the municipality Muotathal in Switzerland. In addition to being the third longest cave in Europe and the 11th longest of the world, it is also notable for having a depth of . The Hölloch is an example of a karst cave system.
== Exploration == The cave was first scientifically explored in 1875 by a group led by Alois Ulrich. Later expeditions in the 1950s by Alfred Bögli, one of the pioneers of speleology, managed to explore a large part of the cave.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hölloch Cave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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