Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

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Post by ExactoKnight » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 7:24 AM UTC

Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
canadiangeographic.ca

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Post by Fnoord » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:43 AM UTC

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

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Post by gevz » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:44 AM UTC

Here is short aerial shot video of the entrance https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0zCbxYravM

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Post by throwaway2419 » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:53 AM UTC

Wow ... That Cave is huge ... What unexpected things could we find there?

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Post by breck » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:58 AM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #2

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

https://goo.gl/maps/xAq3L86hkQ82

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Post by notyourwork » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:59 AM UTC

gevz wrote: post #3

Here is short aerial shot video of the entrance https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0zCbxYravM

Did you read the article? It includes the same video.

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Post by beefsack » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:59 AM UTC

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.

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Post by flyingfences » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 7:05 AM UTC

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

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Post by chillaxtian » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 7:05 AM UTC

throwaway2419 wrote: post #4

Wow ... That Cave is huge ... What unexpected things could we find there?

Reptilians

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Post by francislavoie » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 7:06 AM UTC

breck wrote: post #5

Fnoord wrote: post #2

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

https://goo.gl/maps/xAq3L86hkQ82

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