Devil's Fall is a cave in the
British Overseas Territory
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are the fourteen dependent territory, territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, ...
of
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 ...
. It was a prehistoric shelter and is listed and protected by the
Heritage and Antiquities Act 2018
The Heritage and Antiquities Act 2018 is a Gibraltar law unanimously passed in 2018 by the Gibraltar Parliament
The Gibraltar Parliament is the legislature of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Between 1969 and 2006, it was called ...
.
Description
This cave, which is actually four caves, is in the cliff face between
Camp Bay and
Little Bay
Little Bay is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Little Bay is located 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of ...
. They are known as Devil’s Fall Cave, Devil's Fall (North), Devil's Fall (West-Upper) also known as Crack Cave and Devil's Fall (West-Lower). The location is considered dangerous.
In the 1950s there were a large number of cannon balls found in the cave. It is surmised that these had rolled down the slopes into the cave during the many times that Gibraltar was under siege.
[
The Devil's Fall cave is one of few identified as being of particular archaeological interest. The cave is a Class A listed ''building'' as designated by the ]Government of Gibraltar
His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar is the democratically elected government of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The head of state is King Charles III who is represented by the Governor. Elections in Gibraltar are held every four ...
's Gibraltar Heritage Trust Act of 1989.
See also
*List of caves in Gibraltar
This is a list of all discovered caves in Gibraltar.
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 le ...
References
Caves of Gibraltar
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