<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CUCC Austria Expeditions: Links</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <h1>Links to other relevant sites</h1> <h3>Other groups working in the area</h3> <p>If you didn't reach this page from <a href="others/index.htm">Groups known to have worked in Totes Gebirge caves</a> please go and read that first. <ul> <li>The principal reference must be to the local Austrian caving group, the <a href="http://www.hoehle.at">Verein für Höhlenkunde im Obersteier</a>. <br /> Follow their <a href="http://www.hoehle.at/wordpress/links/">links page</a> to find more local clubs</li> <li>The German <a href="others/arge/index.html">Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Grabenstetten e.V.</a> (ARGE) is still active in the area and cooperating on friendly terms with CUCC. They have recently carried out much exploration in the southern area around <a href="1623/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a>, including the most major discovery in the plateau in recent years, the connection of the Stellerweghöhle/Eishöhle system to Kaninchenhöhle.</li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1933676873324193"> Lancaster University Speleological Society</a> had expeditions in Austria in 1987 and 1988. A report of the 1987 expedition is on the SLUGS copy of their old archived website <a href="http://www.slugs.xyz/old_luss_pages/Exploration/Austria/are87.html"> LUSS: Austria Reconnaissance Expedition 1987</a> also published in Caves & Caving 38. (They apparently walked up from the Wildnsee Hut.) </li> <li><a href="http://www.ubss.org.uk/">University of Bristol Spelæological Society</a> were present on the 1981 and 1982 expeditions as a guest club, and also independently in 1989 and 1990 (we believe; these last two trips were clandestine, and records are unsurprisingly rather sparse.)</li> <li><a href="http://hoehle.org/">The Austrian Speleological Association</a> Verband Österreichischer Höhlenforscher) is the national organisation. </ul> <h3>Groups working in adjacent areas</h3> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.hoehlenforschung.org/">Landesverein für Höhlenkunde in Oberosterreich</a> maintain a site covering the adjacent 1626 kataster area.</li> <li>To our south in the Dachstein, in the 1543 and 1546 kataster areas, the local group is <a href="https://hoehlenverein-hallstatt-obertraun.at/">Verein für Höhlenkunde Hallstatt - Obertraun</a>.</li> <li>A group based around the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardiffcavers/">Cardiff University Caving & Canyoning Club</a>, have been <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/dachsteincaving/">exploring in the Dachstein</a> since the 1970's.</li> <li><a href="https://ulsa.org.uk/">University of Leeds Speleological Association</a> worked in the Tauplitz area in the mid-eighties. <i>Note: All old ULSA addresses should probably look <a href="https://archive.ulsa.org.uk/">here</a> instead.</i></li> </ul> <h3>UK Groups whose members have taken some part in CUCC expeditions</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ubss.org.uk/expeditions.php">UBSS Expeditions</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/wordpress/">Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bpc-cave.org.uk/wp/"> Bradford Pothole Club</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cavedivinggroup.org.uk/">Cave Diving Group</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/">Craven Pothole Club</a></li> <li><a href="https://northernpennineclub.org.uk/">Northern Pennine Club</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.tsgcaving.co.uk/">Technical Speleological Group</a></li> </ul> <h3>Geography and geology of Austria</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.geol-info.at/eeinfueh.htm">Introduction to the geological zones of Austria</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.geolba.ac.at/">Austrian Geological Survey</a></li> <li><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geological+zones+of+Austria&atb=v93-1&ia=web">Online search</a> </ul> <p>Return to <a href="others/index.htm">Groups known to have worked in Totes Gebirge caves</a>. <p><em><small>Links manually checked 21 December 2019</small></em> <hr /> </body> </html>