The World's Largest Cave: Son Doong Cave in Vietnam
The Son Doong cave is world's largest cave, located in
Quang Binh province, Vietnam. It is found by a local man named Ho Khanh in 1991
and was recently discovered in 2009 by British cavers, led by Howard Limbert.
The name "Son Doong" cave means "mountain river cave", It
was created 2-5 million years ago by river water eroding away the limestone
underneath the mountain Where the limestone was weak, the ceiling collapsed
creating huge skylights.
It's over 5.5kmlong, has a jungle and river and could fit
a 40-story skyscraper within its walls. The world's
largest cave is more than 200m
wide, 150m high, and approx. 9km long, with caverns big enough to fit an entire
city street inside them, twice larger than Deer Cave in Malaysia. Son Doong
cave was classified as the largest cave in the world by BCRA and selected as
one of the most beautiful in the globe. Read more news:
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