Dark Star (cave)


Dark Star is the name of a cave system located in the Boysuntov Range in Uzbekistan, some from the capital Tashkent, near the village of Boysun.
It has seven entrances. The first cave entrances were discovered by Russians in 1984, but it was not until 1990 when British cavers began to explore it. It is named after the 1974 film of the same name. As of March 2017, it has been explored by eight different expeditions, with over of passageways discovered, with an estimated depth of over.
Nearby is another cave system, Festivalnaya, which it is suspected to be connected to.