Voronya Cave

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Voronya Cave (also spelled as Voronja Cave) aka Krubera Cave (the preferred name), is the deepest known cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagrinsky Range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia.The altitude difference in the cave between the entrance and the deepest explored point (its depth) is 2,191 ± 20 metres. The cave became the deepest in the world in 2001 when the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,710 m (5,600 ft), which exceeded the previous deepest cave, Lamprechtsofen in the Austrian Alps, by 80 m. In 2004, for the first time in the history of speleology, the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition crossed the 2,000 m depth mark and explored the cave to -2,080 m (?6,824 ft). The current maximum depth of 2,191 m was reached during a 46 m deep dive by Gennadiiy Samokhin into the terminal sump during the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association in August?September 2007. The cave remains the only cave on Earth deeper than 2,000 metres.