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Pištenik is a mountain in
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 Herze ...
, located southeast of
Plaški Plaški is a village and a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is part of the region of Lika. Geography Plaški is situated in the lower part of the Ogulin-Plaški valley. Together with Gorski kotar and Lika, the Ogulin-Plaški valley ...
and northwest of Saborsko. Its highest peak is high. It hosts a deep karst pit called Balinka. In the 1960s, members of the local mountaineering society "HPD Željezničar" surveyed 45 speleological sites there, including a cave called Estavela Begovac with a depth of . In a 1964 expedition to the Balinka Pit of the Croatian speleologists joined by the South Wales Caving Club, William Anthony Birchenough reached a depth of almost 700 feet. Two years later a second expedition reached the bottom of the pit. https://www.swcc.org.uk/joomla-swcc/images/Documents/Docs_Arch/Newsletter/21stanniversarypublication.pdf P160- P255


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List of deepest Dinaric caves This is a list of the deepest caves in the Dinaric Alps. Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia each had national lists of deepest caves in Yugoslav times, during which they were often compared. A continuously updated list is available for Slovenia. For ...
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List of Dinaric caves This is an incomplete list of caves in the Dinaric Alps. Biokovo Bjelašnica Bočko pogorje Brač Bukovica Cesarsko brdo Cetina Cres and Lošinj Crnopac Ćićarija and Učka Dinara Drvodevnik Usually seen as p ...
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List of longest Dinaric caves This is a list of the longest caves in the Dinaric Alps. This region is known for its deep caves more than its long caves, in part because of the slow progress of cave exploration and in part because the recency and severity of the uplift is l ...


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{{Karlovac-geo-stub Mountains of Croatia Landforms of Karlovac County