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Entrance to Blue Hole. The Blue Hole is a fresh water pond and cenote located in Castalia, Erie County, Ohio, in the United States.From the 1920s to 1990 the Blue Hole was a tourist site, attracting 165,000 visitors annually at the height of its popularity, partly because of its location on State Route 269, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize. The following is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
The name derives from a word used by the lowland Yucatec Maya—tsʼonoʼot—to refer to any location with accessible groundwater. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Mexico the Yucatán Peninsula alone has an estimated 10,000 cenotes, [ 4 ] water-filled sinkholes naturally formed by the collapse of limestone, and located across the peninsula.
Called Dean’s Blue Hole (named after a Bahamian fisherman), this impressive marine formation, located in a protected bay west of Clarence Town, is the third-deepest blue hole in the world ...
Amberjack Hole – blue hole located 48 km (30 mi) off the coast of Sarasota, Florida. Bayou Corne sinkhole – Assumption Parish, Louisiana. About 25 acres in area [72] and 230 m (750 ft) deep. The Blue Hole – Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The surface entrance is only 80 feet (24 m) in diameter, it expands to a diameter of 130 feet (40 m) at the ...
MASSILLON – A large sinkhole on the city's northeast side has prompted city officials to swiftly approve funding to help fix the problem. City Council authorized approximately $125,000 during a ...
The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas Watling's Blue Hole, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef). Blue holes typically ...
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