Principals etapes de l’exploració i topografia de les Coves del Drac (Manacor, Mallorca)
[ENG] The celebrated Coves del Drac is one of the longest caves in Mallorca (over 7,500 m of mapped passages), amassed a considerable amount of descriptive and scientifi c literature from 1880 to the present, and outstands today among the most visited show-caves in the world. Th e...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | papersSocietatEspeleologica:PapersSEB_2018vol001p001 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/papersSocietatEspeleologica/index/assoc/PapersSE/B_2018vo/l001p001.dir/PapersSEB_2018vol001p001.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/papersSocietatEspeleologica/document/PapersSEB_2018vol001p001 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Speleology Caves -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Manacor) Speleology -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Periodicals |
| Sumario: | [ENG] The celebrated Coves del Drac is one of the longest caves in Mallorca (over 7,500 m of mapped passages), amassed a considerable amount of descriptive and scientifi c literature from 1880 to the present, and outstands today among the most visited show-caves in the world. Th e central topic of this chapter is focused on the major stages of the exploration, cartography and popularizing of this cavern. Are also especially emphasized the main advances in the geographical knowledge of Coves del Drac cave system, as well as the historical background of maps and exploratory accounts in which relies its successful touristic management. At the same time, has been introduced in this chapter a basic set of the most important place-names, accordingly with the succession of discovery and surveying events occurred in the cave throughout the last 150 years. Four of them must to be underlined: 1) the early Friedrich Will’s map, published in 1880; 2) the campaign performed by Édouard- Alfred Martel in 1896, using portable boats for the exploration of the sea-level pools; 3) the signifi cant improvement of the cave exploitation along the twenties, together with the new map published on the occasion of a fi eld trip of the XIVth International Geological Congress, held in Madrid in 1926; and 4) the underwater discoveries and surveying tasks carried out by the Majorcan cave divers that, starting in 2013, have substantially increased the extent of the known cave. |
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