Voronia Cave is the closest point to the centre of the Earth.
One of Jules Verne’s most desired dreams, as published in his novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth” in 1864, was to enter the interior of the Earth.
Although the Veryovkina Cave will not take us to such depths, it does allow us to get as close as we know to the centre of the planet.
Veryovkina Cave, about 2212 meters deep, is the deepest cave in the world. It is located in the pass between the Krepost and Zont mountains in Abkhazia, a self-declared independent state officially considered part of Georgia.
In 1968, the cave was discovered by speleologists from Krasnoyarsk, who reached a depth of 115 meters.
In 1986, a new group from Moscow led by Oleg Parfenov managed to get a considerable depth of 440 meters.
Since 2015, a series of new incursions by the Perovo-Speleo group determined that the cave was deeper, gaining new and better marks repeatedly until reaching the record of 2,212 meters in March 2018 and recording an underground tunnel system of more than 6,000 meters.
