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where the stream enters. A high meandering passage from the chamber leads after about 200 metres (660 ft) to an 85-metre (279 ft) deep rift which is descended in three stages. The descent route involves traversing and technical rope rigging to avoid the waterfalls. The last pitch drops into Stream
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Passage Pot is at the end of a blind valley. The water sinks to one side of the valley before the end, and the entrance is through a boulder ruckle down a vertical lined shaft for 6 metres (20 ft). An awkward passage soon terminates in a small pitch 6 metres (20 ft) into a chamber
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system being located about 320 metres (350 yd) ESE of Gaping Gill Main Shaft. It is a popular and sporting entrance into the system, featuring three well-watered big shafts. It is the highest entrance of the Gaping Gill system, so the full depth of the system, 198 metres (650 ft), is
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246:(49 ft), known as Mud Pot. At the bottom is a sump which has been dived to a depth of 9 metres (30 ft) and distance of 67 metres (220 ft). The water is next seen in the deep pool at the bottom of South-East Pot below the final pitch of
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