Jackson's Bay Cave is a very large cave system on the Portland Ridge in Clarendon near the south coast of Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It was discovered in 1964 since when over 10 kilometres of caves have been mapped.

History

Pottery shards, rock carvings and rock paintings suggest that the caves were used by the Arawak Indians or Taínos.

Fossils

A specimen of the extinct Jamaican Monkey

Jamaican Monkey

The Jamaican Monkey is an extinct species of monkey first uncovered at Long Mile Cave in Jamaica by Harold Anthony in 1919...

 (Xenothrix mcgregori) was found by an American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...

 expedition c1993–1996. Fossil remains of the Jamaican Flightless Ibis

Jamaican Flightless Ibis

The Jamaican Ibis, Jamaican Flightless Ibis or Clubbed-wing Ibis is an extinct bird species of the ibis subfamily uniquely characterized by its club-like wings...

(Xenicibis xympithecus) have also been found there.

External links

• Map
• Aerial view.
• Photos:
• Caving in Jamaica website, Guy van Rentergem.