The Deepest Caves of the World

At the end of the 20th century there were three caves which have been the deepest caves. All three were still explored, and new parts were discovered every year. The exploration of such deep caves is very difficult and strenuous, and so the expeditions often stoped with many unexplored leads. The research of those decades brought several new discoveries and so this list had to be rewritten several times. However, the times when Austria, France and Georgia competed for the deepest cave are over. In the 2020s there are four caves from Georgia on the first four places and two of them are more than two kilometers deep. So it seems the winner has been found.

Cave	Location	Depth	Year	Explanation
Veryovkina	Abkhazia, Georgia	2,212m	OCT-2017
Voronya Cave (Krubera Cave).	Abkhazia, Georgia	2,197m	AUG-2016	This was for a long time the deepest cave of the world.
Sarma	Abkhazia, Georgia	1,830m	OCT-2019
Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya system	Abkhazia, Georgia	1,753m	SEP-2016
Lamprechtsofen	Austria	1,734m	JAN-2019	The Lamprechtsofen was on place one for some time, after a group of Polish speleologists discovered a connection to a nearby cave system, which was already known. But it lost place one after only two years on JAN-2001 with the new discoveries in Voronya Cave.
Gouffre Mirolda / Lucien Bouclier	Haute Savoie, France.	1,626m	MAY-2016

• See also
• Search Google for "Deepest Caves of the World"
• Worlds Deepest Caves by the Geology and Geography Section of the National Speleological Society (Bob Gulden).
• Listado De Cavidades Mundiales, a list by the SECJA in Spain.
• USA Deepest Caves by the Geology and Geography Section of the National Speleological Society (Bob Gulden).