AA CAVE, Asakgre

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An cave entrance with no specified shape and dimensions, which faces an unspecified direction, gives access to interconnected rift passages. ETYMOLOGY: No locally known cave name has been identified for what was nicknamed -Cave of Dikgen Mark- (alienated: Dikgen Marak Kol) or -Cave of Dipen Marak- (alienated: Dipen Marak Kol) in honour of a cave guide called Dikgen Marak (Harper 2008.02.07 Mss: Dikgen Marak KOI.pdf) or Dipen Marak (Harper 2008.02.09: Janta Dobhakol.pdf). SITUATION: In a small depression [note 1] at the top of a line of small limestone cliffs on the left [no direction mentioned] at about 1 km along the footpath from [from an unspecified spot somewhere at one of the villages of] Asakgre to Chokpot (Harper 2008.02.07 Mss: Dikgen Marak KOI.pdf), The recorded GPS position (note 2) indicates a spot which lies to the south of the motorable track from the village of Asakgre to Chokpot (note 3) and at a linear distance of exactly 1,400 m due west from the meadow in front of th I.B. (inspection bungalow) at Asakgre Imandura Banda (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION (K. Sanderson and S. McManus in: Harper, Rob 2008.02.07 Mss: Dikgen Marak KOI): From a small chamber at the entrance a 10 m [estimated] deep rift can be followed for an estimated 15 m to a crossroads. Ahead is choked with boulders. Right is a small rift, containing a resident rat, which was not entered but seen to diminish in size. Left is a slightly larger rift passage to another crossroads at which left and straight on are choked and to the right an increasingly narrow rift descends. I.B. (inspection bungalow) at Asakgre Imandura Banda (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION (K. Sanderson and S. McManus in: Harper, Rob 2008.02.07 Mss: Dikgen Marak KOI): From a small chamber at the entrance a 10 m [estimated] deep rift can be followed for an estimated 15 m to a crossroads. Ahead is choked with boulders. Right is a small rift, containing a resident rat, which was not entered but seen to diminish in size. Left is a slightly larger rift passage to another crossroads at which left and straight on are choked and to the right an increasingly narrow rift descends.