<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e887967-1cdb-465e-92ec-81286e7138b0/95D1DA93-7721-4718-899B-23B5D7A87B4E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/" href="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.weirdasianews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/">World’s Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/"><P>The Son Doong cave is 262 feet wide throughout most of the passage, and features a 1.6 mile long river and 230 feet stalagmites. For a couple of miles of the passage, the cave measures 460 feet wide.</p> <P><IMG width="450" height="400" alt="cave river Worlds Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam picture" src="http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cave-river.jpg" title="cave-river" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6105" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/">A local farmer discovered the cave and led the joint British and Vietnamese exploration team in their April expedition. The team mapping the cave got as far as a 46 foot high wall before they were stymied.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/"><P></p> <P><IMG width="450" height="500" alt="cave Worlds Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam picture" src="http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cave.jpg" title="cave" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6106" /></p> <P>The previous record-holder, Deer Cave on the Malaysian island of Borneo, is 300 feet wide, but it is much shorter than Son Doong. The Vietnamese terrain, which is filled with similar limestone caves, presented a lot of difficulties to the explorers. The research team surveyed the cave using precise laser technology to assess its size.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/09/worlds-biggest-cave-discovered-vietnam/"><P></p> <P><IMG width="532" height="340" alt="Cave Vietnam Worlds Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam picture" src="http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Cave-Vietnam.jpg" title="Cave-Vietnam" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6107" /></p> <P>(<A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090724-biggest-cave-vietnam.html">link</A>)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/95D1DA93-7721-4718-899B-23B5D7A87B4E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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