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Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...
Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system. This list of longest caves includes caves in which the combined length of documented passageways exceeds 100 kilometres (62 mi). In some of these caves, passageways are still being discovered. [1] [2]
The cave had already been named when another "Mammoth Cave" was discovered in August 1902. That cave was later called Mediterranean Cave, but for several months it was also being called Mammoth in London and Australia. [1] This cave had always been called the Mammoth Cave or Signal Station Cave.
Later that year, William would go on to create Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first examples of interactive fiction, based on his caving experiences with Pat in the Mammoth Cave system as a way to connect with his daughters after the divorce. [4] Pat first encountered the game at a Boston meeting of the Cave Research Foundation in 1976 or ...
Floyd Collins was born on the Collins family farm, located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Mammoth Cave near the Green River in Kentucky. Floyd began entering caves by himself at the age of six in search of Native American artifacts to sell to tourists at the Mammoth Cave Hotel. [5]
Mammoth Cave Parkway. The Mammoth Cave Parkway is a major roadway located in the Mammoth Cave National Park in west-central Kentucky. It encompasses parts of Kentucky Routes 70 and 255 within the park in northwestern Barren and eastern Edmonson Counties. It closely follows the Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike & Hike Trail. [2]
Cedar Sink is a vertical-walled large depression or sinkhole in the ground, located in Edmonson County, Kentucky and contained within and managed by Mammoth Cave National Park. The sinkhole measures 300 feet (91.4 m) from the top sandstone plateau to the bottom of the sink and was caused by collapse of the surface soil.
Hang Sơn Đoòng - largest known cave by volume and contains the largest known cave passage. [102] Kazumura Cave - longest and deepest surveyed lava tube. [4] Mammoth Cave - greatest total length of surveyed passage. [3] Sistema Ox Bel Ha - longest underwater cave and second longest surveyed cave. [103] Veryovkina Cave - deepest known cave, at ...