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Sarawak Chamber

Karst Caves and Sinkholes

Sarawak Chamber is a single cave room inside Gua Nasib Bagus, part of Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It measures roughly 600 meters long, 435 meters wide and up to 115 meters high, and a 2011 laser survey put its volume at more than 9.5 million cubic meters, making it the largest known cave chamber on Earth by floor area and the second largest by volume after China's Miao Room. The chamber formed within the Melinau Limestone, a reef complex dating from the late Eocene into the early Miocene, through karst dissolution acting on rock whose folded anticline and syncline structure happened to leave an unusually large void once the surrounding stone dissolved away. Three British cavers, Andy Eavis, Dave Checkley and Tony White, discovered the chamber in January 1981 during the Mulu 80 expedition.

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National Park or Reserve 1
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Karstification, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Karstification via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Sarawak Chamber

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Speleology, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Speleology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Sarawak Chamber
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Malaysia

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Source Wikidata: Sarawak Chamber
Sources
1. Sarawak Chamber (Wikipedia)
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    World's Largest Cave - Sarawak Chamber Archived 2013-03-18 at the Wayback Machine China's "Supercave" Takes Title as World's Most Enormous Cavern Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world by area and the second largest by volume after the Miao Room in China. It is in Gua Nasib Bagus (Good Luck Cave), which is located in Gunung Mulu National Park in the Malaysian territory of Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
  • In Group: Caves and Cave Systems, Lead paragraph
    Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world by area and the second largest by volume after the Miao Room in China.
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Wikidata: Sarawak Chamber
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