swap_horiz Gaping Gill Alternatives

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Son Doong Cave

Son Doong Cave is a colossal karst cavern within Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. It represents the world's la...

Exploration Limestone Vietnam World Record

9.9 Brilliant

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Grotte de Lascaux

The Grotte de Lascaux is a cave system near Montignac, France, renowned for its exceptional Paleolithic cave art. Over s...

France Unesco Limestone Paleolithic

9.7 Brilliant

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Guilin-Lijiang Karst

The Guilin-Lijiang Karst landscape showcases dramatic limestone formations sculpted by water and weather over millennia....

China Scenic Tourism Limestone

9.6 Brilliant

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Phong Nha-Ke Bang Karst

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park protects a significant karst region within Vietnam. This UNESCO World Heritage site feat...

Unesco Limestone Vietnam Karst Region

9.6 Brilliant

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Sótano de las Golondrinas

The Sótano de las Golondrinas is a remarkable limestone cave system located in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This vertical sh...

Mexico Limestone World Record Vertical Shaft

9.1 Excellent

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Goa Jomblang

Goa Jomblang is a unique karst formation located on the island of Java, Indonesia. It features a dramatic vertical shaft...

Java Indonesia Limestone Cave System

8.9 Great

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Majlis Al Jinn

Majlis Al Jinn in Oman is one of the world's largest underground chambers by floor area, accessible only by rope descent...

Limestone Oman World Record Cave System

8.6 Great

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Gough's Cave

Gough's Cave is a limestone cavern in Cheddar Gorge, England, famous for its impressive stalactite chambers and the 1903...

England Prehistoric Limestone Cheddar

8.2 Great

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Treak Cliff Cavern

Treak Cliff Cavern in England is a limestone show cave famous for its deposits of the rare Blue John fluorite and its we...

England Limestone Derbyshire Cave System

7.8 Good

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Peak Cavern

Peak Cavern, located in Derbyshire, England, is a natural limestone cave system known for having the largest cave entran...

England Limestone Derbyshire Cave System

7.6 Good

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Yorkshire Dales Karst

The Yorkshire Dales in Northern England feature extensive limestone pavements, subterranean cave systems, and dramatic w...

Europe England Limestone Limestone Pavement

7.5 Good

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White Scar Cave

White Scar Cave near Ingleton, North Yorkshire, is England's longest show cave, discovered in 1923 and featuring an impr...

England Limestone Yorkshire Cave System

7.5 Good

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Wookey Hole Caves

Wookey Hole Caves is a karst cave system in Somerset, England, famous for its large underground river chambers and the l...

England Somerset Limestone Cave System

7.4 Good

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Ingleborough Cave

Ingleborough Cave is a show cave in the Yorkshire Dales, England, hydrologically connected to the Gaping Gill pothole sy...

England Limestone Yorkshire Cave System

7.3 Good

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Speedwell Cavern

Speedwell Cavern is a show cave in Castleton, Derbyshire, England, notable for a boat ride through flooded mine passages...

England Limestone Derbyshire Cave System

7.2 Good

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Mendip Hills Karst

The Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, contain the famous Cheddar Gorge and an extensive network of limestone caves that...

Europe England Limestone Caves

7.0 Good

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Clearwell Caves

Clearwell Caves is a limestone network in England's Forest of Dean, distinguished by its historical extraction of iron o...

England Historic Limestone Forest Of Dean

6.9 Fair

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Poole's Cavern

Poole's Cavern is a limestone show cave in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, used since the Stone Age and traditionally named...

England Limestone Derbyshire Cave System

6.4 Fair

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Cox's Cave

Cox's Cave is a smaller but highly decorated limestone cave in Cheddar Gorge, England, discovered in 1837 and known for...

England Limestone Cheddar Cave System

6.3 Fair

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Moaning Cavern

Vertical limestone cave in Calaveras County, California, containing one of the state's largest single cavern chambers an...

California Limestone Cave System Show Cave

5.9 Mediocre