Lava Tube - Examples

Examples

  • Iceland
    • Surtshellir - For a long time, this was the longest known lava tube in the world.
    • Víðgelmir - Another long lava tube of Iceland.
  • Portugal
    • Gruta das Torres - Lava tube system of the Azores.
  • Spain
    • Cueva del Viento - 17 km lava tube. Tenerife, Canary Islands
  • USA
    • Lava River Cave in Arizona's Coconino National Forest
    • Lava Beds National Monument - The site of the largest concentration of lava tubes in the United States
    • Kazumura Cave - Not only the world's most extensive lava tube, but has the greatest linear extent of any cave known
    • Lava River Cave in Oregon's Newberry National Volcanic Monument - Newberry National Volcanic Monument
    • Ape Cave, Washington - May be the third longest lava tube in the continental United States

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