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Ivanščica
Ivanščica () or Ivančica is a mountain in northern Croatia. The highest peak is the eponymous Ivanščica at . Together with Strahinjščica it forms the Očura massif. The rivers of Bednja (river), Bednja, Lonja, Krapina (river), Krapina and Veliki potok rise and flow in the area. On March 16, 1983, at 13:52:52, Ivanščica was the epicenter of a very strong (Mercalli-Cancani-Sieberg, MCS VII) earthquake. Name Ivanjščica is the Kajkavian form of the name, while Ivančica is the Shtokavian, Shtokavized form. Speleology Ivanščica is a partly karst massif, and a number of caves have formed in those layers, such as Bračkova špilja, Voska luknja, Karlova špilja and Generalka on its northern slopes, or Sutinščica in its southern foothills. Mountain huts In the 1935–1936 season, the ''Pasarićeva kuća'' mountain hut, at in elevation, saw 1025 visitors. In the 1936–1937 season, it saw 510 visitors, including 7 Austrian citizens. In the 1937–1938 season it saw 586 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bračkova špilja
Bračkova špilja is a cave and archaeological site in Zagorje about long, located on the north slope of the Ivanščica massif. It is a dry horizontal cave with a wide entrance at the foot of a short cliff. It is sometimes highlighted as the most prominent cave on Ivanščica, and has the most extensive literature of any of its caves. It is difficult to access, but a tourist path has been planned. Name Bračkova špilja is not to be confused with Bračkova jama, a nearby pit cave deep also known as Markova jama na Ivanščici. Description The cave is located in the ravine of the Šumec (Bednja), Šumec, which cuts through the Dubrava (Ivanščica), Dubrava peak. It is horizontal, sloped slightly upwards towards the back, narrower both horizontally and vertically with progression. The inclination was sufficient to prevent the accumulation of sediment on the cave floor The width of the cave near the entrance is about . The entrance is difficult to reach for reasons of grade (slop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voska Luknja
Voska luknja is a cave on the north slope of the Ivanščica massif. It is a diagonal cave, so its horizontal length of is much smaller than its total passage length of . As mapped, it is the second deepest cave on Ivanščica behind Hanžekova jama at , but its total vertical difference is the largest in Zagorje, with potential for further expansion It is difficult to explore because of its narrowness and the entrance is difficult to access, but a tourist path has been planned. Name The name Voska luknja is Kajkavian for "Narrow Hole" (). Description The cave is located on the slopes of the Dubrava peak. It is an exceptionally narrow cave, partly tectonic in origin, whose widest section is only wide. It is a cascading cave entered from the side with continuations both at the top and at the bottom for a total known vertical difference so far of , but these narrows are impassible without modification. The main chamber leads upwards and goes by the name ''Veliki kanal''. The cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generalka
Generalka is a cave in Zagorje with a horizontal passage length, located on the north slope of the Ivanščica massif, above the rock quarry Vudelja that opened in 1935 for road building purposes. It is a dry horizontal cave, and small, but complex. It is difficult to access, but a tourist path has been planned. Description The cave is located on the Generalski Stol plateau of Ivanščica. The cave formed in Anisian dolomite under a combination of tectonic, erosive, and corrosive conditions. It is small, so at 6 points its passages remain incompletely explored because of narrowness alone. But its passages form a complex network of 4 interconnected passages. The cave likely continues to the northwest towards a second entrance. Speleothems include stalactites, stalagmites, and flowstone, along with the occasional stalagnate and coralloids. A map of the cave drawn in 2009 by Tomica Matišić. History Cavers from the newly founded section Kraševski Zviri discovered the cave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlova špilja
Karlova špilja is a cave in Zagorje about long, located on the north slope of the Ivanščica massif. It is a dry horizontal cave with a passage length of . It is difficult to access, but a tourist path has been planned. Its close proximity to the Šumec cave and paleolontological potential have made it a target of interest for local speleologists and paleontologists. Description Like Bračkova špilja and Voska luknja, the cave is located in the ravine of the Šumec, which cuts through the Dubrava peak. It is horizontal, wider at the entrance than in the passages. There are two passages from the entrance. The passage on the right narrows and remains unexplored. The passage on the left is longer is longer but narrow and ends with an impassible widening. All passages are only accessible by crawling, but digging may widen them and has been recommended in conjunction with archaeological investigation. A map of the cave was drawn in 2012 by Tomica Matišić exists. History Cav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutinščica
Sutinščica is the longest cave in Zagorje with of explored passage, and is located in the southern foothills of the Ivanščica massif. Its depth is , but its total vertical difference is . It is a mostly horizontal cave, so its horizontal length of is close to its total length. Part of the cave is seasonally dry, while part requires specialised equipment. The opening keyhole passage opens up into a series of chambers, while the permanently submerged section further back remains unexplored. Description Sutinščica is a ponor of average width and height along northward orientation from the entrance. The keyhole shape of this passage originated as the result of differential erosion between high and low water levels. Speleothems are present in the cave, but many have likely been destroyed by undocumented explorers. In wetter conditions, only are explorable without diving equipment thanks to a siphon. from the entrance there is a sequence of two larger chambers, of dimensions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karst
Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. There is some evidence that karst may occur in more weathering-resistant rocks such as quartzite given the right conditions. Subterranean drainage may limit surface water, with few to no rivers or lakes. In regions where the dissolved bedrock is covered (perhaps by debris) or confined by one or more superimposed non-soluble rock strata, distinctive karst features may occur only at subsurface levels and can be totally missing above ground. The study of ''paleokarst'' (buried karst in the stratigraphic column) is important in petroleum geology because as much as 50% of the world's Oil and gas reserves and resource quantification, hydrocarbon reserves are hosted in carbonate rock, and much of this is found in porous karst systems. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Varaždin County
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Croatia
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least above the surrounding land. A few mountains are inselberg, isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. mountain formation, Mountains are formed through tectonic plate, tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through Slump (geology), slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce Alpine climate, colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the Montane ecosystems, ecosystems of mountains: different elevations hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobor
Lobor is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County, northern Croatia. Population In the 2011 census, there were a total of 3,188 inhabitants in the area, in the following naselja, settlements: * Cebovec, population 49 * Lobor, population 521 * Markušbrijeg, population 488 * Petrova Gora, Krapina-Zagorje County, Petrova Gora, population 464 * Stari Golubovec, population 193 * Šipki, population 114 * Velika Petrovagorska, population 237 * Vinipotok, population 400 * Vojnovec Loborski, population 416 * Završje Loborsko, population 306 In the same census, 98.96% of the population were Croats. History During the first year of the World War II, the Ustaše established a concentration camp in Lobor, also known as Loborgrad concentration camp, for Jews, Jewish and Serbs, Serb women and children. At least 200 of them died in it. On 13 April 2023, World Rally Championship driver Craig Breen died in an accident on a road between Lobor and Stari Golubovec during the Hyund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Hut
A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are usually operated by an Alpine Club or some organization dedicated to hiking or mountain recreation. They are known by many names, including alpine hut, mountain shelter, mountain refuge, mountain lodge, and mountain hostel. It may also be called a refuge hut, although these occur in lowland areas (e.g. lowland forests) too. Mountain huts can provide a range of services, starting with shelter and simple sleeping berths. Some, particularly in remote areas, are not staffed, but others have staff which prepare meals and drinks and can provide other services, including providing lectures and selling clothing and small items. Permanent staffing is not possible above the highest permanent human settlements, which are 5500m at the latitude of Everes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shtokavian
Shtokavian or Štokavian (; sh-Latn, štokavski / sh-Cyrl, italics=no, штокавски, ) is the prestige supradialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin standards. It is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. Its name comes from the form for the interrogative pronoun for "what" . This is in contrast to Kajkavian and Chakavian ( and also meaning "what"). Shtokavian is spoken in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, much of Croatia, and the southern part of Austria's Burgenland. The primary subdivisions of Shtokavian are based on three principles: one is different accents whether the subdialect is Old-Shtokavian or Neo-Shtokavian, second is the way the old Slavic phoneme ''yat'' has changed (Ikavian, Ijekavian or Ekavian), and third is presence of Young Proto-Slavic isogloss (Schakavian or Shtakavian). Modern dialectology generally recognises seven Shtokavian subdialects. Early h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
