Sarawak Chamber

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

Discovery

The chamber was discovered in January 1981 by three experienced English cavers Andy Eavis, Dave Checkley and Tony White, as they dense, uninhabited jungle of Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak in northern Borneo as part of an expedition under the leadership of Ben Lyon explored. While they wanted to explore some of the newly discovered caves in this region more closely, they found a space whose end she could not make out, despite their strong lamps. They gave him the name Sarawak Chamber. With its 700 meters long, 400 meters wide and at least 70 meters height, it is three times larger than the largest known underground chamber, the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.

Geology

The board is based on an improvement of the soil from 2 to 5 million years ago and the erosion of the soft limestone, associated with typical for the surrounding rainforest heavy rainfall.

Credentials

• Reader 's Digest Ltd.. (1989). Facts and Fallacies: Stories of the Strange & Unusual Reader's Digest, pp. 14-15. ISBN 0864380879th
• Donald Jackson: Earth Series - Underground Worlds, Time Life Books 1985.
• Extreme Earth. Collins 2003. Pages 78-79. ISBN 0-00-716392-4
• House of Leaves (2000) 2nd Edition, Pantheon Books New York, page 125