Sarawak Chamber

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The Sarawak Chamber (English Sarawak Chamber) is a large chamber in the course of the Good Luck Cave (Malaysian Gua Nasib Bagus), which is located in Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo . The Sarawak Chamber is considered to be the world's largest underground space. It is traversed by an underground tributary of the Melinau Paku River, which in turn flows into the Baram .

discovery

The chamber was established in January 1981 by three experienced English cavers discovered Andy Eavis, Dave Checkley and Tony White when she dense, uninhabited jungle of Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak in northern Borneo as part of an expedition led by Ben Lyon explored. While exploring some of the newly discovered caves in this region, they came across a room the end of which they could not make out despite its powerful lamps. They named it the Sarawak Chamber . At 700 meters long, 400 meters wide and at least 70 meters high, it is three times larger than the largest known underground space, the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park , New Mexico .

geology

The chamber is based on an uplift of the ground 2 to 5 million years ago and the karstification of the soft limestone , combined with the heavy rainfall typical of the surrounding tropical rainforest .

credentials

  • Reader's Digest Ltd .: Facts and Fallacies. (Stories of the Strange & Unusual). Reader's Digest, Sydney NSW 1989, ISBN 0-86438-087-9 , pp. 14-15.
  • Donald Dale Jackson: Underground Worlds (= Planet Earth. ). Time Life Books, Alexandria VA 1985.
  • George W. Stone: Extreme Earth. Collins, London 2003, ISBN 0-00-716392-4 , pp. 78-79.
  • Zampano: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves. With Introduction and Notes by Johnny Truant. 2nd edition. Pantheon Books, New York NY 2000, ISBN 0-375-42052-5 , p. 125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.mulucaves.org/wordpress/ in English

Coordinates: 3 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 114 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E