CAVE

A cave is a natural hole in the ground large enough and deep. Some scientists explain that he must be large enough so that some part in it does not receive sunlight; but in general the use of fairly broad sense, including the protection of stone, sea caves.

Record

Because I continue to explore new, therefore, continuously updated record of the size of the cave.

Largest cave system (within) is Mammoth Cave (Kentucky, USA) with a length of 579 km. This record does not seem to be skipped in the near future because the second longest cave known to be in Pechera Optymistychna in Ukraine with a length of 214 km.

In 2005, the deepest known cave (measured from the entry point to its lowest point) is Voronya Cave (Abkhazia, Georgia, with a depth of 2080 m. This is the first cave that had crawled up to a depth of more than 2 km. Cave's first with a depth of more than 1 km are never explored Gouffre Berger is famous in France. Gouffre Mirolda - Lucien Bouclier Lamprechtsofen caves in France and in Austria is a cave Vogelschacht second and third deepest with a depth of 1733 m and 1632 m, respectively. this record has been changed several times in recent years.

Cave depth record held by protrudes downward Vrtoglavica cave in Slovenia with the 603m, followed by the Velebit cave Velebit mountain in Croatia with a depth of 553m.

Cave is the largest ever encountered Sarawak Chamber, Mount Mulu National Park (Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia), with an area of ​​600 mx 400 m and a height of 80 m.

For the world famous caves, see the list of caves.