ACHOLA (Cave at)

Akole (Akola - IN)
19.533300,74.000000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave (no name mentioned) reported KEAY (2000b: 120) presumably after (PHILLIMORE 1950-1968) from a hill with the GTS (Great Trigonometrical Survey) station -Achola- somewhere in the Western Ghats (Sahayadri Range), Maharastra State. SITUATION: Unknown. Presumably at the village of Akola (note 1) near N19°32': E074°00' in the valley of the Pravara River (N19°37': E075°01'). CAVE LIFE: In October 1822 the cave was a den of striped hyenas, which, somehow hindering surveying, were (ordered to be?) killed by George Everest.An unspecified cave (no name mentioned) reported KEAY (2000b: 120) presumably after (PHILLIMORE 1950-1968) from a hill with the GTS (Great Trigonometrical Survey) station -Achola- somewhere in the Western Ghats (Sahayadri Range), Maharastra State. SITUATION: Unknown. Presumably at the village of Akola (note 1) near N19°32': E074°00' in the valley of the Pravara River (N19°37': E075°01'). CAVE LIFE: In October 1822 the cave was a den of striped hyenas, which, somehow hindering surveying, were (ordered to be?) killed by George Everest.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Keay, John 2000, 2000b; Phillimore, R H 1950-1968.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1822 October: George Everest killed (or ordered to kill) the striped hyenas at home in a cave at Achola (or so). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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