UMTYLLUN / UMSNIONG (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance of unknown shape once was said to give access to a cave passage inside which selected marines in the pay of the Indian Navy abandoned caving after having measured a distance of 25 m more or less lengthwise and then invented a tale (Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February) according to which they had created a conclusion [note 1] of about 40 m (note 2). ETYMOLOGY: As far as known, the caving marines, who were involved in attempting to survey this cave, discovered that this cave is possibly called -- but this remains unknowable -- either Krem Umsniong (note 3) Anonymous et al. (2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February); Anonymous (2010.03.29 Mss: Survey summary.xls) Krem Umtyllun (note 4) Anonymous et al. (2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February) and, last but not least, again possibly Krem Umsieniong (note 5) Anonymous 2010.02.03 -Krem Umsieniong_01.Text- survey data file. SITUATION 2010(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), te -Blue Hole- of the tourists, some 800 m in a direct line approximately ESE (793 m east and 124 m south), and c) from the unidentified Lawbah Sink (25°13'51”N: 91°34'14”E) about 365 m in a direct line almost due south (365 m south and 31 m east). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Walking upstream along a streambed eventually leads to an east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance that gives access to about 25 m of surveyed cave passage (on average 1.5 m large). This contains a pool of water and leads generally north to ill-defined upstream entrances amidst partly roofed limestone pillars where cave mapping was abandoned (after Arbenz, T 2011.12.17 Mss: Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010 and Arbenz, T 2012.01.01 personal correspondence after Kharpran Daly, B D 2010.02.03 notebook).(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), t(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), t(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), te -Blue Hole- of the tourists, some 800 m in a direct line approximately ESE (793 m east and 124 m south), and c) from the unidentified Lawbah Sink (25°13'51”N: 91°34'14”E) about 365 m in a direct line almost due south (365 m south and 31 m east). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Walking upstream along a streambed eventually leads to an east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance that gives access to about 25 m of surveyed cave passage (on average 1.5 m large). This contains a pool of water and leads generally north to ill-defined upstream entrances amidst partly roofed limestone pillars where cave mapping was abandoned (after Arbenz, T 2011.12.17 Mss: Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010 and Arbenz, T 2012.01.01 personal correspondence after Kharpran Daly, B D 2010.02.03 notebook).