[3] Arctomys Cave was discovered in 1911,[3] and first reported in the Canadian Alpine Journal in 1912 by mountaineer A.O.

Wheeler who, accompanied by Conrad Kain, Byron Harmon George Kinney and 'Curly' Phillips, had descended to a waterfall at a depth of about 80 metres, stating that: "Beyond that the going is wet and the exploration was not carried further, as there was no change in the character of the subterranean shaft."

Passages above the entrance were surveyed by British and Canadian cavers in 1983 resulting in the current vertical range of 536 metres.

[4] Arctomys Cave is formed in the steeply-dipping Mural Formation limestone of the Early Cambrian Gog Group.

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