I believe it is techically the largest "passage", not the largest room. After all, it is 5km long, plus they compared it to Deer Cave which carries that distinction. It is the Sarawak Chamber in Gook Luck Cave in the same park as Deer Cave, which is the largest chamber.
details, details. This way we get to have so many types of "Big", and more winners!! -------------- Original message from "Lee H. Skinner" <skin...@thuntek.net>: -------------- > An English potholing team has discovered a cave believed to be the > biggest in the world, in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang World Natural Heritage > site, according to officials of central Quang Binh province. > > The English explorers told the provincial authorities at a meeting on > April 22 that the cave, called Son Doong, is some 200m high, 140-150m > wide and over 5km long, located in an area extremely difficult to > access, about 6 hours’ walk from the Ho Chi Minh trail, an official was > quoted as saying. > > Son Doong has replaced the Deer cave in Malaysia to become the world’s > largest cave. > > Read the complete article at: > > http://is.gd/uiin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com >
