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Jackson's Bay Cave

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30: 529: 377: 496: 37: 142:. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It was discovered in 1964. It is part of the Jackson bay cave system, consisting of 14 unconnected caves, and over 9200m of cumulated caves passages 599: 594: 66: 570: 365: 29: 182: 343: 251: 609: 604: 563: 358: 337: 513: 215: 589: 556: 351: 135: 53: 381: 210: 186: 131: 472: 307: 220: 146:
since then. The longest of them, Jackson Bay Great Cave is over 3.360 kilometres (2.088 mi) long.
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Pottery shards, rock carvings and rock paintings suggest that the caves were used by the
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Stewart, Ronald Stefan; Kouwenberg, Silvia; Pauel, Jan (2020).
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expedition c. 1993–1996. Fossil remains of the
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Map showing the location of Jackson's Bay Cave
Clarendon Parish
17°44′24″N 77°12′54″W / 17.7400214°N 77.2150469°W / 17.7400214; -77.2150469
cave
Portland Ridge
Clarendon
Jamaica
mapped
Arawak Indians
Taínos
Jamaican monkey
American Museum of Natural History
Jamaican flightless ibis
Jamaican caracara
List of caves in Jamaica
Jamaican Caves Organisation
The Caves of Portland Ridge - 2020 (pdf)
Jamaica Underground
ISBN
976-640-036-9



"A late Quaternary paleoecological record from caves of southern Jamaica"
The Caves of Portland Ridge, Jamaica
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