{"id":85596,"date":"2018-12-07T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/massive-cave-discovered-in-canada-named-after-star-wars-beast"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:24:18","slug":"massive-cave-discovered-in-canada-named-after-star-wars-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/massive-cave-discovered-in-canada-named-after-star-wars-beast","title":{"rendered":"Massive Cave Discovered in Canada, Named After \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0zCbxYravM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A massive, previously unexplored cave discovered by accident in Canada has been named \u201cSarlacc\u2019s Pit,\u201d after the multi-tentacled alien beast that first made an appearance in <em>Star Wars: Return of the Jedi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Canada\u2019s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change first came across the huge cavern in Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia while conducting a caribou count by helicopter in March.<\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole was later discovered to be the entrance to a cave, and is 328 feet long, 196 feet broad and 600 feet deep. Officials believe it may be Canada\u2019s largest cave.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/massive-cave-discovered-in-canada-named-after-star-wars-beast-1764929\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/massive-cave-discovered-in-canada-...t-1764929\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive, previously unexplored cave discovered by accident in Canada has been named \u201cSarlacc\u2019s Pit,\u201d after the multi-tentacled alien beast that first made an appearance in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Officials from Canada\u2019s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change first came across the huge cavern in Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}