2011-05-03

13 Most Beautiful and Famous Caves in The World

  1. Son Doong Cave , Vietnam
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    Dong's Cave is a cave National Park, Phong Nha-Ke Bang, Bo Trach District, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. This cave is located near the border of Laos and Vietnam. It has a large underground river rapids in it. the cave was discovered by a man named h o-Khanh in 1991. Local people fear the forest because the cave was whistling, it is an underground river. However, not until 2009 the place was known to the public when a group of British scientists from the British Cave Research Association, led by Howard and Deb Limbert, conducted a survey in Phong Nha-Ke Bang 10 to 14 April 2009. journey they were stopped by a wall of large calcite. According to Limbert, this cave is five times greater than Phong Nha cave, once considered the largest cave in Vietnam. The biggest room son dong more than five miles long, 200 meters and 150 meters wide.
     
  3. Cave of The Giant Crystals, Mexico
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    Crystal Cave, or Cave (Spain: Cueva de los Cristales) is a cave that is connected to the mine Naica 300 meters (980 feet) deep in Chihuahua, Mexico. The main room contains a giant crystal Selenite, some of the largest natural crystals ever found. Largest crystal cave discovered when it is 11 m (36 ft) long, 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter and weighs 55 tons. The cave is 27 m wide (89 feet) and 9 meters (30 feet). The cave is very hot with temperatures reaching up to 58 ° C (136 ° F) with humidity of 90 to 100 percent. The cave is relatively unexplored due to extreme temperatures and high humidity.
     
  5. Voronya (Krubera) Cave , Abkhazia
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    Krubera Cave (Cave Voronya or sometimes spelled Voronja Cave) is the deepest cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabica Massif of the Western Caucasus Range Gagrinsky, in Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia. Differences in altitude at the entrance of the cave and explore the deepest point is 2191 ± 20 m (7188 ± 66 ft). This has become the world's deepest cave known in 2001 when the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition reached a depth of 1710 m (5610 ft) which exceeds the depth of the deepest cave before, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, with 80 m. In 2004, for the first time in the history of science of the cave, the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition reaches depths of more than 2,000 m, and explore the cave to -2080 m (-6824 ft).
     
  7. Mammoth Cave , Kentucky , USA
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    Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System bulge where the caves were formed. This park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. National Park 52,835 acres (21,382 ha) located mainly in Edmonson County, Kentucky, with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County.
     
  9. Optymistychna Cave , Ukraine
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    Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System bulge where the caves were formed. This park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. National Park 52,835 acres (21,382 ha) located mainly in Edmonson County, Kentucky, with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County.
     
  11. Toca da Boa Vista, Brasil
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    Toca da Boa Vista is the longest cave in the southern hemisphere. It is located in the town of Campo Formoso in Bahia State, Brazil and has 84 km mapped in 1999. Now reported 102 km of the section make 15 of the world's longest cave.
     
  13. The Eisriesenwelt Caves , Austria
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    The Eisriesenwelt is ice natural limestone cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. Tennengebirge Hochkogel cave on the mountain in the Alps. This is the largest ice caves in the world, covering more than 42km and is visited by about 200,000 tourists each year.
     
  15. Vroglavica Cave , Slovenia
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    Vrtoglavica Cave is a cave which is located on Mount Kanin in the Julian Alps of Slovenia, near the border between Slovenia and Italy. This cave holds the record for the deepest decline in the (pitch) single vertical of each cave on Earth at a depth of 603 meters (1978 feet).
     
  17. Ox Bel Ha Cave System , Mexico
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    Ox Bel Ha (from Maya means "The three paths of water") is a cave in Quintana Roo, Mexico. This is the longest explored underwater cave in the world. In August 2010 the respondent length of 182.1 km (113.2 miles) below the water.
     
  19. Wind Cave , New Mexico , USA
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    Wind Cave National Park is a United States national park 10 miles (16 km) north of the city of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Founded in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the seventh U.S. National Parks and the first cave designated as a national park anywhere in the world. The cave is important to be shown on calcite formation known as boxwork. About 95 percent of the world find boxwork formations found in Wind Cave. Wind Cave is also known for its ornate ice. This cave is also considered a three-dimensional maze cave
     
  21. Lascaux Caves , France
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    Lascaux cave discovered in 1940 in southern France. Lascaux is famous for its cave paintings. the cave was closed to the public in 1963 due to a decrease in the paintings of excess carbon dioxide generated by visitors. Now you can only see a virtual tour of the many rooms and cave paintings.
     
  23. Pierre Saint martin , France/Spain
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    The Pierre Saint Martin caverns in France and Spain and is famous for the depth of 4400 feet is remarkable. This is one of the largest caves in the world.
     
  25. Ochtinska Aragonite Cave , Slovakia
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    Ochtinská aragonite cave is a unique aragonite cave located in southern Slovakia, near Rožňava. Although only 300 m in length, it is famous for its rare aragonite filling. cave was discovered by chance by Jan Bystricky in 1954 and opened to the public in 1972. Along with other cave Slovak Karst, included in UNESCO World Heritage list as a component of Karst and Slovak Karst Aggtelek Cave site.
     

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