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The cave contains the world's largest non-subglacial underground lake, [1] with an area of almost 2 hectares (4.9 acres). [2] The lake is located around 100 metres (330 ft) below the surface. [ 3 ] Its total depth is 205 metres (673 ft).
The largest subterranean lake in the world is in Dragon's Breath Cave in Namibia, [3] with an area of almost 2 hectares (5 acres); [4] the second largest is The Lost Sea, located inside Craighead Caverns in Tennessee, United States, with an area of 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) [5]
Namibia Arnhem Cave 4.5 km (2.8 mi) [18 ... St.Pauls Underground River Cave 24.0 km (14.9 mi) [52 Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park ...
Lake Guinas was surveyed by multibeam sonar from the autonomous underwater vehicle Sunfishi in 2019. [4] Apollo 11 Cave in the ǁKaras Region of south-western Namibia, approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) southwest of Keetmanshoop. This cave contained some of the oldest pieces of mobile art ever discovered in southern Africa, radiocarbon dated ...
There are huge subterranean water reserves beneath parts of the Kalahari; the Dragon's Breath Cave, for example, is the largest documented non-subglacial underground lake. Such reserves may partly be the residues of ancient lakes; the Kalahari Desert was once a much wetter place.
Otjikoto Lake is the smaller of only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia. It is a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing karst cave. [ 1 ] It is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Tsumeb and only 100 meters from the main road B1 .
Lake Otjikoto. One of the largest and deepest underground lakes in the world lies a little to the east of Tsumeb, on a farm called Harasib. To reach the water in the cave one has either to abseil or to descend an ancient, hand-forged ladder that hangs free of the vertical dolomite walls of the cave for over 50 m. Here, too, SCUBA divers have ...
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes and reservoirs in Namibia. Pages in category "Lakes of Namibia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.