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New discoveries and explorations of Bulgarian cavers in Albania Contributed by Zhalov on Wednesday, September 02 @ 09:55:42 EEST
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In the period 24 July – 18 August 2009 Albania was a scene of 3 Bulgarian speleological expeditions. Two of them was concentrated on the exploration of the Shpella ne Majes te Harrapit (Maja Arapit Cave) located in North Albanian Alps near Theth vill., Shkodra district.
The first expedition was granted by European Federation of Speleology as Euro Speleo Project . It was composed by 21 cavers from Albania (2), Bulgaria (10), France (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1) , Romania (4) and conducted by Bulgarian Federation of Speleology. Leader and coordinator was Alexander Yanev.
Under the leadership of Alexander Yanev , from 26 July to 6 August the international team explored and surveyed 1313 ì. of new passages. Most of them are located in two slopping down meanders which leads off form the upper part of the cave. Downstream they are connected and ended in the sump located - 26 m lower from the level of the cave entrance. Over 0,5 km of old passage was remmaped. The actual length of the cave Maja Arapit (after this expedition) grow from 1224 m to 2537 m. The depth is 243 m where the highest point is + 217 and the lowest one is - 26 ì. Because of the remapping of the old part of the cave, minimal correction of the positive depth were made.
In the period 10 – 17 August the exploration of Maya Arapit were extended from another Bulgarian expedition . It was organized by the SC “ Sofia”- Sofia. Under the leadership of Zh Mechkov worked also cavers from SC "Iskar", “Sherni Vruh” and “Helictit " from Sofia and" Salamander "-Stara Zagora in total 14 persons. Using alpine and cavers methods and team climb up the virgin vertical galleries of the cave. According to preliminary data they climbed another 60 meters. Now the final point that has reached is + 277 meters up form the entrance. After the second expedition the depth of the cave become 303 m. The studies will continue because the theoretical hydrogeological potentials ot the cave is 1000 m.
Meanwhile from Albania has returned speleo- anthropological and folklore expedition led by A. Zhalov from SC "Heliktit" Sofia. Within 1 week the cavers form SC from Mezdra and Chepelare and specialists from the Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Association of Anthropology, Ethnology and folklore studies "Ongal" worked in the vicinity of Golyamo Ostreni vill. in the region of Golo Bardo. As a result some new caves was surveyed. The longest one is Peshtnik - 197 m. Some new caves was found in the bank of the Big Prespa.
Reported by by Alexey Zhalov
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