Bulmer Cavern
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Bulmer Cavern is New Zealand's longest cave system, running for Template:Convert<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> through Mount Owen in the Tasman region of the northwest South Island.<ref>Caving in New Zealand (from Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand)</ref> John Patterson discovered the cave on New Year's Day 1984, by dropping a rock down and counting the seconds until it reached the bottom.
Bulmer Cavern was the location of a major cave rescue effort in 1998, when it took 80 cavers several days to extract another caver who had fallen and broken his jaw deep in the cavern.<ref name="EQUIP">Caving equipment and culture from Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand)</ref>
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