Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - August - Caves, Mines and Sinkholes

2017 – August – Caves, mines and sinkholes

The new challenge features caves, mines and sinkholes.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout August UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. August 2017 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

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Entries

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  Phong Nha cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park, Vietnam
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  L'ancienne carrière à Crazannes près de Saintes, France
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  L'ancienne carrière à Crazannes près de Saintes, France
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  Cave in Matera ravine, Basilicata, Italy
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  Caves in the woods of the emilian Appennines (Montese - Italy)
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  Crepuscular rays in Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona
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  Droplet of water on a pop-corn formation in X-Cave in Carter Caves State Resort Park
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  La Jolla Cave, San Diego, CA
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  "Sunny Jim" profile in Sunny Jim Cave in La Jolla, San Diego, CA
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  Valley of Mount Giove Hematite and Pyrite open-pit mine, Elba, Italy
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  Vigneria Hematite and Pyrite open-pit mine, Elba, Italy
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  Surface of an open-pit mine, Elba, Italy
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  St. Anthony's Cave
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  Doolin Cave (Irland), einer der größten Stalaktiten Europas
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  Barbarossa cathedral in the Devil's Cave near Pottenstein
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  Skeleton of a cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) in the Devil's Cave in Pottenstein
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  Galerie d'entrée de la grotte des Puits (Pierre-la-Treiche, Lorraine, France)
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  Galerie d'entrée de la grotte Sainte-Reine (Pierre-la-Treiche, Lorraine, France)
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  Deuille de Crézilles, résurgence de l'Aroffe, à sec en été (Crézilles, Lorraine, France)
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  Trou des Glanes, résurgence de l'Aroffe, à sec en été (Moutrot, Lorraine, France)
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  Stalactites in Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, USA
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  Vulkanhöhle auf Madeira bei Sao Vicente
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  Abandoned gold mine near Larder Lake, Ontario, Canada
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  Grotte-chapelle de Notre-Dame de la Malène, Lozère, France
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  Grotte-chapelle de Notre-Dame de la Malène, Lozère, France
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  Bottles of Burgundy wine in an old quarry
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  Bottles of Burgundy wine in an old quarry
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  Bottles of Burgundy wine in an old quarry
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  excentric stalagtite, Geisloch Cave, Franken, germany
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  Mushroomlike sinter in the Geisloch Cave, Franken, Germany
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  Open Pit Mine in Lead, South Dakota
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  Broken stalagmite in Thiên Đường Cave, Vietnam
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  Woodlawn mine site near Tarago, NSW Australia
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  Delabole Quarry in 2003
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  Headframe in former mine La Découverte in Decazeville, Aveyron, France.
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  Former mine La Découverte in Decazeville, Aveyron, France.
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  Diving in Atlantic Ocean
  Gran Canaria, Spain
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  Das Naturschutzgebiet „Gipslöcher“ (Dolinen) in Oberlech.
  The nature reserve ‘Gipslöcher’ (Sinkholes) in Oberlech.
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  Das Naturschutzgebiet „Gipslöcher“ (Dolinen) in Oberlech.
  The nature reserve ‘Gipslöcher’ (Sinkholes) in Oberlech.
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  Höhle an der Ostküste von Mallorca.
  Cave on the east coast of Majorca.
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  Eine Statue aus Tropfsteinen gebildet
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  Überbleibsel einer mit Wasser unterspülten Höhle
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  A dark passage in Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, USA
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  Stalactites in Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, USA
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  Shaft hoist from abandoned goldmine, Larder Lake, Ontario, Canada
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  Haunted Caves of Ha Long Bay
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  Lead ore mine "Grube Wohlfahrt" Hellenthal-Rescheid , Germany
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  Entering a mine in Cerro Rico, Potosì, Bolivia
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  A small cave under a small waterfall near the village Skra in northern Greece.
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  Quackenschloss. Cave in Franconian Switzerland.
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  Mine of cinnabar, Abbadia San Salvatore, Tuscany, Italy
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  The big cavern 'la Grave' with stalagmites called the Cyclops, Castellana Caves, Puglia, Italy
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  Cenote Ik-Kil near Chichen Itza, Mexico
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  Redmond Caves - Oregon, USA
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  Ape Cave - Washington State, USA
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  Aufgenommen bei der Ballonfahrt über Chemnitzer Landschaft in Sachsen.
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  Schloss Linderhof, Venusgrotte mit Boot.- Bayern, Deutschland.
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  The cave Riesenburg in Frankonian Switzerland in Germany
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  Sand mining in San Diego, California, USA
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  The Akhshtyrskaya cave is a notable archeological site near Sochi, Russia.
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  Cave wall covered in coral shaped stone formations, in the cave of Kilkis, Greece.
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  Boats sailing near one of the Blue Caves of Paxi, in the Ionian Sea.
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  People swimming towards one of the Blue Caves of Paxi, Greece, in the Ionian Sea.
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  Etruscan Necropolis of Sutri, particular of the inside of a cave, Italy
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  Etruscan caves part of a Necropolis in Sutri, Italy
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  An image taken in the Eben Ice Caves. This is a seasonal tourist attraction in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This particular image is of ice flowing down onto a small rock shelf.
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  An image taken in the Eben Ice Caves. This is a seasonal tourist attraction in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This particular image is of ice flowing down onto a small rock shelf.
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  An image taken in the Eben Ice Caves. This is a seasonal tourist attraction in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This particular image is of ice flowing down onto a small rock shelf.
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  An image taken in the Eben Ice Caves. This is a seasonal tourist attraction in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This particular image is of ice flowing down onto a small rock shelf.
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  In der Drachenhöhle Syrau. Deutschland.
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  Syrau, Drachenhöhle. Die "Gardine".
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  An island with caves as nostrils
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  Chapel of St George, Didyma Cave, Greece
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