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The Mussard cave (French: Caverne Mussard) is a mountain cave on the island of Réunion. Located about 2150 meters above sea level in the heart of the Piton des Neiges (Mountain range) , it falls within the municipality of Saint-Benoit.[1] It is named after the slave hunter François Mussard , who have killed and captured a lot of Maroons in the mid eighteenth century.[2]
Mussard cave | |
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Caverne Mussard | |
Location | La Réunion |
Coordinates | 21°05′42″S 55°30′42″E / 21.095°S 55.511528°E |
Elevation | 2,157 m (7,077 ft) |
Discovery | 18th century (Maroon) |
Notes and references
edit- ^ http://www.hikr.org/dir/Caverne_Mussard_48971/ Website for Hiking Reports Caverne Mussard
- ^ Patrick Beaton, Six Months in Reunion: A Clergyman's Holiday, and how He Passed it , Hurst and Blackett, 1860, p293.