It's on OpenStreetMap already https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/651633176 and someone's named it the "Sarlacc Pit" (Star Wars reference). Unclear if the OSM editor came up with it or if it's from somewhere else.
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
#32Earlier 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.
Maybe the indigenous people knew about it
Quite likely. I have no idea why this was downvoted. It's usually the case native populations had far greater knowledge than they are ever credited for. Perhaps they will find some evidence of humans inside.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#33It's on OpenStreetMap already https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/651633176 and someone's named it the "Sarlacc Pit" (Star Wars reference). Unclear if the OSM editor came up with it or if it's from somewhere else.
The (temporary) name is mentioned in the article.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#34Earlier 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.
Yes it is. My favorite anecdote about it is that the province of Ontario is big enough to have vineyards in the south and polar bears in the north.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#35Wow ... That Cave is huge ... What unexpected things could we find there?
The bones of excessively inquisitive natives.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#36There's a river going there, how could this have been missed? Anyone got a map of this?
From looking at the map, it looks like the valley for the river goes into the cave, and that there isn't much water down hill of it going into the main river. In hindsight that could be a big signal that there water is going underground.
Perhaps there are several other caves of similar size to be found?
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada is mind bogglingly big.
Yes it is. My favorite anecdote about it is that the province of Ontario is big enough to have vineyards in the south and polar bears in the north.
Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line in this map, which is also further south than Seattle.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes it is. My favorite anecdote about it is that the province of Ontario is big enough to have vineyards in the south and polar bears in the north.
Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line in this map, which is also further south than Seattle. https://imgur.com/CenW9oi
Yup. That line is just north of Montreal, so the area south of it includes Canada's two largest metropolitan areas.
Did you know there's a tiny bit of Canada that is further south than the California-Oregon border?
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line in this map, which is also further south than Seattle. https://imgur.com/CenW9oi
Yup. That line is just north of Montreal, so the area south of it includes Canada's two largest metropolitan areas. Did you know there's a tiny bit of Canada that is further south than the California-Oregon border?
Detroit is actually north of that tiny bit of Canada too. Blew my mind a little when we moved here.
Re: Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
#40Earlier 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.
No kidding. Just the Wawa-Sault Ste. Marie-Timmins-Sudbury quad is large enough to be lost in for several lifetimes. One tell that you are about to enter uncharted territory is a sign that reads 'last gas station for 400km'.
And that is one of the more accessible areas, there are still plenty of lakes where a water plane can land and there are logging trails every 30 km or so.