GUNUNG MULU NATIONAL PARK
Sarawak,
Malaysia
UNESCO World
Heritage Site
Largest Sarawak National Park
Major Tourist
Attraction
Type: Natural Criteria: vii, viii, ix, x Reference: 1013
Inscription: 2000 (24th
Session)
Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak,
Malaysian Borneo, is a UNESCO World
Heritage Site that encompasses caves and karst formations in a mountainous
equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the
expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding
rainforest, most notably the Royal Geographical Society Expedition of
1977–1978, which saw over 100 scientists in the field for 15 months. This
initiated a series of over 20 expeditions now drawn together as the Mulu Caves
Project. The national park is named
after Mount Mulu, the second highest mountain in Sarawak.
Gunung Mulu National Park is one of Nature’s most
spectacular achievements and the ‘Jewels in the Crown’ of Sarawak’s expanding
network of national park. It is also the largest national park covering 544 sq
km of primary rainforest contain significant natural habitat for in-situ
conservation of biological diversity and the protection of threatened flora and
fauna species. Mulu’s greatest attractions lie deep below the surface, one of
the largest limestone cave system in the world.
The National Park is renowned for its caves that have
amazing record in the world. They are the (Sarawak Chamber), which is the world’s
largest (natural) cave chamber in the world. Sarawak Chamber, found in Gua Nasib Bagus. It has been said that the chamber is so big that it
could accommodate about 40 Boeing 747s, without overlapping their wings. (Clearwater Cave), which is the longest cave
in the South East Asia is believed to be the largest interconnected cave system
in the world by volume and the 8th longest cave in the world at 207 km (May
2014), and also (Deer Cave), the world’s largest cave passage.
