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Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by unixhero »

beefsack wrote: post #7
Fnoord wrote: post #2

There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?

It boggles the mind that something that massive didn't get picked up sometime, especially in this age of broadly accessibly high quality satellite imagery.

Canada is mind bogglingly big.

Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by avip »

Fnoord wrote: post #2

There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?

BC is 950K km^2 with less than 5M people (drop Metro Vancouver and it's 2.5M). So 1.5 the size of France, the majority of which basically looks like Wells Gray (though Wells Gray has some extra beautiful spots). There are dozens of "Wells Gray like" parks, and most visitors don't hike up the mountains (and surely not off trails). So it's missable in theory.

[EDIT]: also mentioned in another cover - explorers believe cave was snow covered year-round up until 20-50 ago.

Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by vishnu_ks »

unixhero wrote: post #11
beefsack wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It boggles the mind that something that massive didn't get picked up sometime, especially in this age of broadly accessibly high quality satellite imagery.

Canada is mind bogglingly big.

Imagine the things that are waiting in the Universe to be discovered.

Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by Jaruzel »

francislavoie wrote: post #10
breck wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://goo.gl/maps/xAq3L86hkQ82

LOL someone on Google Maps already named it "Saarlac Pit Cave"

Not on my view in Google Maps.

Adjusting for 3D view and zooming out slightly, you really can see how remote it is!

Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by i_feel_great »

beefsack wrote: post #7
Fnoord wrote: post #2

There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?

It boggles the mind that something that massive didn't get picked up sometime, especially in this age of broadly accessibly high quality satellite imagery.

Maybe the indigenous people knew about it

Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by nobrains »

flyingfences wrote: post #8
Fnoord wrote: post #2

There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?

Here's a map with more recent, higher quality imagery than Google. https://zoom.earth/#52.516747,-120.04313,19z,sat

So much for trying to keep its location secret :)

From the article: "Pollack wouldn’t reveal the exact location of the cave, saying only that it was in the northern section of the park. Asked whether he was concerned about protecting the site, he said, “We are, but also the thing is that this cave is truly in the middle of nowhere."

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