| Jackson's Bay Cave | |
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| Location | Clarendon Parish, Jamaica |
| Coordinates | 17°44′24″N 77°12′54″W / 17.7400214°N 77.2150469°W[1] |
| Length | 3.360 kilometres (2.088 mi)[2] |
| Discovery | 1964 |
| Entrances | 14[2] |
Jackson's Bay Cave is a very large cave on the Portland Ridge in Clarendon near the south coast of Jamaica. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It was discovered in 1964. It is part of the Jackson bay cave system, consisting of 14 unconnected caves, and over 9200m of cumulated caves passages mapped since then.[2] The longest of them, Jackson Bay Great Cave is over 3.360 kilometres (2.088 mi) long.[3]
- ^ Fincham, Alan G (1997). Jamaica Underground (2nd ed.). ISBN 976-640-036-9.
- ^ a b c McFarlane; Lundberg; Fincham (2002). "A late Quaternary paleoecological record from caves of southern Jamaica" (PDF). Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. 64 (2): 117–125. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Stewart, Ronald Stefan; Kouwenberg, Silvia; Pauel, Jan (2020). The Caves of Portland Ridge, Jamaica (PDF). Ewarton & Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaican Caves Organisation. p. 67. Retrieved 30 January 2023.