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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

World's Largest Cave Found


Apparently deep in the jungle in Vietnam. More pictures at the story.
At 262-by-262 feet (80-by-80 meters) in most places, the Son Doong cave beats out the previous world-record holder, Deer Cave in the Malaysian section of the island of Borneo.

Deer Cave is no less than 300-by-300 feet (91-by-91 meters), but it's only about a mile (1.6 kilometers) long.

By contrast, explorers walked 2.8 miles

via Neatorama

Update 7/28/09: Nellisir points out the Sarawak chamber, may actually still be the biggest cave chamber:


You could fly dragons around in these things!

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM

    Passage. I think it's the world's largest cave passage.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM

    The world's largest cave chamber is Sarawak Chamber, in Borneo.

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  3. TelecanterJuly 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM

    Hey, thanks for the heads up, it looks like Sarawak is a taller and wider chamber, although at five kilometers long this new one will hold more gelatinous cubes :)

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  4. C'nor (Outermost_Toe)November 22, 2010 at 6:36 PM

    "You could fly dragons around in these things"

    But how would they get there in the first place?

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