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Caves of the Northern Ankarana

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The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar

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The very northern part of Northern Ankarana is almost unexplored and contains many caves, most of which belong to a single network that drains towards the Ankara Spring. The explorations conducted by J. Radofilao aimed at trying to connect these different caves but several possible connections are sumps. This poses the problem of cave diving in rivers frequented by crocodiles.

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  1. Geography Department, Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis, France

    Eric Gilli

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Gilli, E. (2019). Caves of the Northern Ankarana. In: The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99879-4_6

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