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It’s hidden beneath rolling hills, can be reached only via an underground stream, and now it has been named the world’s biggest cave chamber: meet Miao Room.
Yes, a new measurement of China’s vast Miao Room cavern shows that the cave chamber encompasses some 380.7 million cubic feet (10.78 million cubic meters). That beats out the past title-holder, Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia. However, the Malaysian cave chamber is still the world’s largest by surface area (around 1.66 million square feet).
“To me this is like discovering that K2 is larger than Everest,” Tim Allen, an expedition co-leader who studied the Chinese cave, told National Geographic. He was referring to K2, the Himalayan peak that is taller than all other mountains on Earth except Everest.
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A photographer’s lights illuminate the green-hued Getu He river in the Miao Room — now considered the…
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