Api Chamber is a chamber in
Whiterock Cave in
Mount Api,
Gunung Mulu National Park,
Sarawak
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,
Malaysia
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. Measuring 300 m by 200 m and with a surveyed circumference of 900 m it is the ninth largest cave chamber by area in the world. Its height is over 100 m and its plan area is 58,000 square metres. It is the second largest chamber in Malaysia, after
Sarawak Chamber.
It was discovered during the
Benarat 2005 Caving Expedition by Dave Nixon and Mark Brown.
External links
Benarat 2005 Expedition
Caves of Sarawak
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