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#66341. zbeckabee
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I saw this on a documentary a couple years back and can't recall the name. It is a fragile and fairly extensive underwater cave system off Australia. Anyone know the name?
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Brainyblonde
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In recent years Cocklebiddy has gained an international reputation as a site for one of the world's largest cave systems. Ten kilometres to the north west of Cocklebiddy Roadhouse lies Cocklebiddy cave. In 1983 a French caving expedition created caving history by exploring Cocklebiddy Cave to an unprecedented distance of 6.4 kilometres. This record was later broken in 1995 by an Australian named Christopher Brown - bettering the 1983 record by a mere 20 metres. Cocklebiddy cave system is unique in that the cave system extensively penetrates an aquifer that lies 90 metres below the Nullarbor Plain. Within Cocklebiddy cave are a number of vast limestone caverns, rockfalls and saline subterranean lakes that extend for several hundred metres.
 http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/cocklebiddy.html
May 30 06, 9:57 AM
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