User:Victuallers/List of the Caves of Gibraltar

The Caves of Gibralter can be divided into natural and man-made caves (or tunnels). The limestone of the rock creates stalactites, the sea has created caves high above and well below the current sea level. In addition the rock has been hollowed out for military and civian purposes. Their are more than 30 miles of tunnels within the rock.

History
The oldest caves are natural and these have been formed either by the sea or by the acid attack of rain water. Although there are a series of caves around the rock at sea level. These have been created by the action of the sea which has found areas of weakness within the natural limestone.

There are more sea caves which are now high in the air and also caves well below the current surface of the mediterranean. The mediteranean sea has not always been there. At one time there was much older sea which eventually dried up. The land that at one time joined Europe and Africa was breached by the Atlantic ocean which washed away the land that at one time joined Europe and Africa.

One of the caves most recent uses (relative to the age of the rocks) has been as habitation for neanderthals. Gorham's cave complex consists of at least four large caves. These caves are amongst the last known sites of Neandethal man. They have been shortlisted as a site of global significance and they are regularly excavavated to reveal more about Neanderthal man.

Stalactities
The caves created by rainwater are so large that they have been used to lost music concerts and hospital wings. The most famous of these is probably St Michaels Cave which has been explored for the last two thousand years. Beneath this cave however is an even longer set of caves.

Tunnels
Man has created large tunnels within the rock. The earliest large set were tunnels at the top of the rock which allowed cannons to be mounted pointing out through holes in the rock onto enemy troops or ships below.

from aboutourrock.com


 * 1) Abbot's Cave (Cueva de los Abades)
 * 2) Alameda Grotto
 * 3) Ape's Den Cave
 * 4) Beefsteak Cave
 * 5) Bell's Backyard Cave
 * 6) Bellman's Cave
 * 7) Bennet's Cave
 * 8) Blackstrap Cave
 * 9) Boathoist Cave (Bulman's Cave)
 * 10) Bray's Cave
 * 11) Brown's Cave
 * 12) Buena Vista Cave
 * 13) Buffadero Cave
 * 14) Caleta Palace Cave
 * 15) Camp Bay Cave (Parson's Lodge)
 * 16) Catalan Bay Road Cave
 * 17) Catalan Bay Cave
 * 18) Catchment Cave
 * 19) Cave S
 * 20) Collin's Cave
 * 21) Comcen Cave
 * 22) Coptic Cave
 * 23) Cormorant Cave
 * 24) Cousin's Cave
 * 25) Crystal Cave
 * 26) Crystal Cavern
 * 27) Cumberland Cave
 * 28) Dead Man's Cave
 * 29) Devil's Dustbin
 * 30) Devil's Fall
 * 31) Devil's Fall (North)
 * 32) Devil's Fall (West-Upper) (Crack Cave)
 * 33) Devil's Fall (West-Lower)
 * 34) Devil's Gap Cave
 * 35) Devil's Tower Cave (Mousterian Shelter)
 * 36) Diesel's Delight
 * 37) Douglas Cave
 * 38) Dudley Ward's Cave
 * 39) Europa Advance Cave
 * 40) Europa Pass Cave
 * 41) Fig Tree Cave
 * 42) Fig Tree Cave 2
 * 43) Forbes' Quarry Cave
 * 44) Genista Cave 1
 * 45) Genista Cave 2
 * 46) Genista Cave 3
 * 47) Genista Cave 4
 * 48) George's Bottom Cave
 * 49) Gibbon's Cave
 * 50) Glen Rocky Cave
 * 51) Glen Rocky Shelter Cave
 * 52) Goat's Hair Twin Caves
 * 53) Goat's Head Cave
 * 54) Gorham's Cave
 * 55) Gunn's Cave
 * 56) Harley Street Fissure
 * 57) Hayne's Cave
 * 58) Holy Boy's Cave
 * 59) Horseshoe Cave
 * 60) Ince's Cave
 * 61) John's Giant Cave
 * 62) Judge's Cave
 * 63) Landport Cave (Leary's Cave)
 * 64) Leonora's Cave
 * 65) Levant Cave
 * 66) Liddell's Union Fissure
 * 67) Lookout Cave (Hole in the Wall)
 * 68) Mammoth Cave (Signal Station Cave)
 * 69) Marble Arch Cave
 * 70) Martin's Cave
 * 71) Martin's Guard Cave 1 & 2
 * 72) McNeil's Cave
 * 73) Mediterranean Cave
 * 74) Middle Hill Cave
 * 75) Monkey's Cave
 * 76) Moorish Castle Barracks Cave
 * 77) Moor's Cave (Cueva del Moro)
 * 78) Mount Misery Fissure
 * 79) Mousterian Rock Shelter
 * 80) Mushroom Cave
 * 81) "Nameless" Cave
 * 82) New St. Michael's Cave
 * 83) Nursery Cave
 * 84) O'Hara's Cave
 * 85) "Operation Monkey" Cave
 * 86) Painter's Cave
 * 87) Pete's Paradise Cave
 * 88) Poca Roca Cave
 * 89) Queen's Cave
 * 90) Queen's Lines Cave
 * 91) Ragged Staff Cave
 * 92) Reservoir Cave No. 4
 * 93) Reservoir Cave No. 5
 * 94) Reservoir Fissure
 * 95) Rifle Dustbin
 * 96) Rock Fall Cave
 * 97) Rock Gun Cave
 * 98) Rock Gun Catchment Shelter
 * 99) Ronald's Delight
 * 100) St. Michael's Cave
 * 101) St. Michael's Cave, Lower
 * 102) St. Michael's Cave, Lower Lower
 * 103) St. Michael's Cave, Roof Passage
 * 104) Sandy Cave Lower
 * 105) Sandy Cave Upper
 * 106) Sapper's Bog Scorpion Cave
 * 107) Sea Caves
 * 108) Shed Cave
 * 109) Signal Troop Cave
 * 110) Smart's Well Reserve
 * 111) Smith's Cave
 * 112) Smuggler's Cave
 * 113) South Cave
 * 114) Spanish Mine
 * 115) Spider Cave
 * 116) Spur Road Cave
 * 117) Star ChamberCave
 * 118) Swallow's Nest Cave
 * 119) Tina's Fissure
 * 120) Transmitter Fissure Treasure Cave
 * 121) Upper All's Well Cave
 * 122) Vanguard Cave
 * 123) Viney Quarry Cave
 * 124) William's Cave
 * 125) Willis' Cave
 * 126) Wilson's Cave
 * 127) Winkies Cave