The cave is named after the delta variable

At the end of July, during an expedition, they descended into the deepest cave system in Australia, writes live sciences. Speleologists reached the bottom of the 401-meter-deep cave in Tasmania, and the entire mapping process took half a year.

Stephen FordyceThe cave explorer and tour operator named the cave after the delta variant of the coronavirus.

This is how the expert wanted to draw the attention of future cave-goers to the current events.

The team spent 14 hours under the surface, in the system, among other things, they had to cross a 163-meter waterfall. Ben ArmstrongAccording to one of the group members, mapping the cave was very difficult. As he added, the system is vertical, and it was necessary to descend and climb several hundred meters.

As it turns out, the bottom of the bore is connected to an already set system, the Niggly-Growling Swallet. At the same time, the entrance to the new cave is 4 meters higher than the highest known entrance to the system.

The newly discovered cave is the deepest in Australia, while the world record holder Feryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, is 2,212 meters deep.