# 1623:31

31 | Elchhöhle (= Megalodontenhöhle) | 2/T +
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Altitude: c1580m
located very near laser point 0/9 at E 35395.4 N (52)81044.6 H 1588.3 Length: 240m
Location: Next to Stögerweg (path 201) somewhat beyond Augsteckhöhle (Kat. 28).

Mainly horizontal and going northish under the path. A large phreatic tube in horizontally bedded limestone. Visited by Andy Waddington, Doug Florence with Karl Gaisberger on August 12th, 1978. Latter person collected a rare cave beetle from it (only the second specimen of this species collected in Austria, if we understood Karl correctly), which I think is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, having been pickled in Vodka borrowed from an expedition member. Name comes from discovery of Elk bones when first explored.

Exploration: LVHK Wien, 1974

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