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Cockpit karst landscapes are among the most distinctive and unique landscapes in the world, and have attracted attention from scientists and tourists alike from across the world and throughout recorded history. So named because of the bowl-shaped depressions resembling cock fighting arenas, its “type area” is the Cockpit Country in Jamaica, a rugged area dubbed “terra incognita” by early colonial settlers. A dramatic example of tropical karst topography, of which there are several, the Cockpit Country displays the best-developed type of cockpit karst in the world, a function of the material properties of the underlying limestone, water table depth, and tectonic setting as much as the climate in which it was formed.
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Lyew-Ayee, P. (2009). The Cockpit Country of Jamaica: An Island Within an Island. In: Migon, P. (eds) Geomorphological Landscapes of the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_8
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