Qualla: Sarawak Chamber https://qualla.com/sarawak-chamber en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sarawak Chamber https://qualla.com/sarawak-chamber Sarawak Chamber: Introduction https://qualla.com/sarawak-chamber/ You could park eight Boeing 747s inside it, nose to tail, and still have room to walk around them. Or you could fit forty football pitches on its floor. These comparisons get tossed around whenever someone tries to convey the scale of the Sarawak Chamber, but they all miss the essential strangeness of the place: it is a void inside the earth so large that when Andy Eavis, one of three British cavers who discovered it in January 1981, stepped into the darkness and swept his headlamp across the space, his light simply vanished. There was no far wall. No ceiling he could see. Nothing returned the beam. He later described the sensation as agoraphobia -- the fear of open spaces -- experienced half a kilometer underground, inside a mountain in Borneo.

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