TABAI GHARA

(Ziārat District - PK)
30.437200,67.660000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified peculiar characteristics) gives access to a flat out crawl entrance into a large chamber 23 metres by 13 metres full of porcupine shit and quills (note 1). ETYMOLOGY: Both CHAMBERS, M 2001b: 28) and BROOKS, S J (2001b: 26) silently agree that not only Tabai Ghara (CHAMBERS, M 2001b: 28) but also Tabia Gharra (BROOKS, S J 2001b: 26) remains fully inexplicable (note 2).CAVE DESCRIPTION: BROOKS, S J (2001b: 26) skiped the whole ballast of redundant over-information and concentrated on what really meters (sic!), namely that the cave yielded 27 m of passage. SITUATION: Somewhere at an unknown distance in an unspecified direction from one Skhobia (note 3) near a place referred to as Kach on the road from Quetta (30°12'N: 67°00'E) to Ziarat (N30°22'47”: E067°43'38” WGS84). CAVE LIFE: CHAMBERS, M (2001b: 28) achieved to report having noticed quills and dung of porcupine (Hstrix var.).An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified peculiar characteristics) gives access to a flat out crawl entrance into a large chamber 23 metres by 13 metres full of porcupine shit and quills (note 1). ETYMOLOGY: Both CHAMBERS, M 2001b: 28) and BROOKS, S J (2001b: 26) silently agree that not only Tabai Ghara (CHAMBERS, M 2001b: 28) but also Tabia Gharra (BROOKS, S J 2001b: 26) remains fully inexplicable (note 2).CAVE DESCRIPTION: BROOKS, S J (2001b: 26) skiped the whole ballast of redundant over-information and concentrated on what really meters (sic!), namely that the cave yielded 27 m of passage. SITUATION: Somewhere at an unknown distance in an unspecified direction from one Skhobia (note 3) near a place referred to as Kach on the road from Quetta (30°12'N: 67°00'E) to Ziarat (N30°22'47”: E067°43'38” WGS84). CAVE LIFE: CHAMBERS, M (2001b: 28) achieved to report having noticed quills and dung of porcupine (Hstrix var.).

Documents

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Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2000.10.14: OCC and CAAB members (Orpheus Caving Club & Chiltan Adventures Association, Balochistan) visited, explored and 'surveyed' to a degree yielding cardinal number 27 (twenty-seven). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.0Pichie Ghara 1
0.0Pichie Ghara 2
0.0BAYAN GHARA
8.1WAWRI CAVE, Kawas Tangi
10.1ZIARAT SHELTER
14.6KHUM TANGI (Boycott 1997), 3rd (Cave in the)
14.7KHUM TANGI (Boycott 1997), 2nd (Cave in the)
14.8KHUM TANGI (Brooks 1990), 2nd (Cave in the)
14.8KHUM TANGI (Brooks 1990), 1st (Cave in the)