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Sof Omar Caves is the longest cave in Ethiopia at 15.1 kilometres (9.4 mi) long. When surveyed in 1972, it was the longest cave in Africa. Since then explorations in Madagascar (Marosakabe - 113km) and Algeria (Rhar Bou Ma’za - the Tafna River Cave 18.4 km) have overtaken it.
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Unique features of the cave include the 50 ft-long (15 m) set of rimstone dams beneath the natural spring-fed pool, a 19 ft-long (5.8 m) special specimen of cave drapery our "Texas-sized cave bacon" thought to be the longest in Texas, stalagmites that resemble the nativity scene, and a large leaning column known as the Leaning Tower of Boerne.
The Colorado Encyclopedia relates: "Although Cross exaggerated the heights and depths of vertical elements, as do most inexperienced cavers, his account is remarkably free of the florid Victorian hyperbole typical of most cave descriptions of that time. Cross and his Boys’ Exploring Association explored most of the horizontal passages ...
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Al Hoota Cave [1] (Arabic: كَهْف ٱلْهُوْتَه, romanized: Kahf Al-Hūtah) is a cave located in Al-Hamra', Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Oman, that is 5 km (3.1 mi) long. The cave was first discovered by locals several hundred years ago and was officially opened as a tourist destination in December 2006.
Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957 [2]) is an Australian musician, writer and actor.Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
Through the 1970s, along with others from an Austin, Texas-based group known as the Association for Mexican Cave Studies, he explored southern Mexico to look for deep caves. In 1976 and 1977, he led expeditions to explore a cave said to be the “world’s most dangerous and difficult cave,” Sumidero Yochib, in Chiapas, Mexico.