This is a list of all discovered
cave
Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's Planetary surface, surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance undergrou ...
s in
Gibraltar
Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...
.
Underwater
Caves form above sea level, and the reason for some caves being located below sea level is that for much of the last 100 thousand years, sea level has been lower than its present level, by up to 120m. This means that the caves which are now underwater may at one time have been lived in by people.
Gibraltar Museum Underwater Research Unit
, Underground-Gibraltar, accessed January 2013 These caves are the subject of research projects.
Caves above sea level
The caves within the Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar (from the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq , meaning "Mountain of Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tariq") is a monolithic limestone mountain high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a nar ...
have been used as shelter during sieges and attacks on the islands for hundreds of years. The caves have also been used to store water and ammunition on a routine basis, and historically Neanderthals lived in a number of the caves.
There are thought to be over 200 caves in Gibraltar. These are the caves that are above ground:
* Abbot's Cave (Cueva de los Abades)
* Alameda Grotto
* Ape's Den Cave
* Beefsteak Cave
* Bell's Backyard Cave
*Bellman’s Cave
* Bennett's Cave
* Blackstrap Cave
* Boathoist Cave (Bulman's Cave)
* Bray's Cave
* Brown's Cave
* Buena Vista Cave
* Buffadero Cave
* Caleta Palace Cave
* Camp Bay Cave (Parson's Lodge)
* Catalan Bay Road Cave
* Catalan Bay Cave
* Catchment Cave
* Cave S
* Collin's Cave
* Comcen Cave
* Coptic Cave
* Cormorant Cave
* Cousin's Cave
* Crystal Cave
* Crystal Cavern
* Cumberland Cave
* Dead Man's Cave
* Devil's Dustbin
* Devil's Fall
* Devil's Fall (North)
* Devil's Fall (West-Upper) (Crack Cave)
* Devil's Fall (West-Lower)
* Devil's Gap Cave
* Devil's Tower Cave
Devil's Tower Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Archaeologist Dorothy Garrod found a Neanderthal skull in the cave which, together with other evidence found in this cave, shows it was used as a rock shelter by the Nean ...
(Mousterian Shelter)
* Dickson's Cavee
* Diesel's Delight
* Douglas Cave
* Dudley Ward's Cave
* East Queen's Line Cave
* Europa Advance Cave
* Europa Pass Cave
* Fig Tree Cave
Fig Tree Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on the eastern cliffs of the Rock of Gibraltar, not far from Martin's Cave within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve. It is listed in the Heritage and Antiquiti ...
* Fig Tree Cave 2
* Forbes' Quarry Cave
* Genista Caves
** Genista Cave 1
** Genista Cave 2
** Genista Cave 3
** Genista Cave 4
* George's Bottom Cave
* Gibbon's Cave
* Glen Rocky Cave
* Glen Rocky Shelter Cave
* Goat's Hair Twin Caves
* Goat's Head Cave
* Gorham's Cave
Gorham's Cave (, ) is a sea-level cave in the British Overseas Territories, British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Though not a sea cave, it is often mistaken for one. Considered to be Neanderthals of Gibraltar, one of the last known habitation ...
* Gunn's Cave
* Harley Street Fissure
* Hayne's Cave
* Holy Boy's Cave
* Horseshoe Cave
* Ince's Cave
* John's Giant Cave
* Judge's Cave
* Landport Cave (Leary's Cave)
* Leonora's Cave
* Levant Cave
* Liddell's Union Fissure
* Lookout Cave (Hole in the Wall)
* Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States in south-central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the List of longest caves, longest known cave system in the worl ...
(Signal Station Cave)
* Marble Arch Cave
* Martin's Cave
Martin's Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It opens on the eastern cliffs of the Rock of Gibraltar, below its summit at O'Hara's Battery. It is an ancient sea cave, though it is now loc ...
* Martin's Guard Cave 1 & 2
* McNeil's Cave
* Mediterranean Cave
* Middle Hill Cave
* Monkey's Cave
* Moorish Castle Barracks Cave
* Moor's Cave (Cueva del Moro)
* Mount Misery Fissure
* Mousterian Rock Shelter
* Mushroom Cave
* "Nameless" Cave
* Nursery Cave
* O'Hara's Cave
* "Operation Monkey" Cave
* Painter's Cave
* Parson's Lodge Cave
* Pete's Paradise Cave
* Poca Roca Cave
* Queen's Cave
* Queen's Lines Cave
* Queen's Road Caves
* Ragged Staff Cave
* Reservoir Cave No. 4
* Reservoir Cave No. 5
* Reservoir Fissure
* Rifle Dustbin
* Rock Fall Cave
* Rock Gun Cave
* Rock Gun Catchment Shelter
* Ronald's Delight
* St. Michael's Cave, Old
* St. Michael's Cave, New
* St. Michael's Cave, Lower Lower
* St. Michael's Cave, Roof Passage
* Sandy Cave Lower
* Sandy Cave Upper
* Sapper's Bog Scorpion Cave
* Sea Caves
* Shed Cave
* Signal Troop Cave
* Smart's Well Reserve
* Smith's Cave
* Smuggler's Cave
* South Cave
* Spanish Mine
* Spider Cave
* Spur Road Cave
* Star Chamber Cave
Star Chamber Cave is a solutional cave, limestone cave in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. In the 1780s the cave became the centre of tunnels known as the ''Lower Galleries'' of the ''Northern Defences''. ...
* Swallow's Nest Cave
* Tina's Fissure
* Transmitter Fissure Treasure Cave
* Vanguard Cave
Vanguard Cave is a natural sea cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar which is part of the Gorham's Cave complex. This complex of four caves has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2016. The cave complex is one o ...
* Viney Quarry Cave
* William's Cave
* Wilson's Cave
Wilson's Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
Location
A 1944 map of the ''Batteries and underground tunnels of Gibraltar'' by Colonel Joseph Marie Emile "Pop" Gareze shows Wilson's Cave n ...
* Winkies Cave
See also
* List of caves
This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory' ...
* Speleology
Speleology () is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their chemical composition, composition, structure, physical property, physical properties, history, ecology, and the processes by which they form (speleogenes ...
References
*This article uses freely licensed text from https://underground-gibraltar.com
External links
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List and map of 68 caves of Gibraltar
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...