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  2. Blue hole - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Great Blue Hole - Wikipedia

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    The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photo­graph. The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ft) deep.

  4. List of sinkholes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Belize's 'Blue Hole' can help crack the mystery of ancient Maya

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    The Blue Hole is a massive sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize. Belize's 'Blue Hole' can help crack the mystery of ancient Maya Skip to main content

  6. ‘Blue hole’ is largest ever discovered at 1.3K feet deep ...

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    Indeed, new measurements taken during a December scuba-diving expedition indicate that the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole (TJBH), located in Chetumal Bay off the Yucatan Peninsula, extends at least 1,380 ...

  7. Sinkhole - Wikipedia

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    The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.

  8. Scientists Discovered the World's Deepest Blue Hole. And They ...

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    It just keeps going. And going. And going. And going.

  9. Belize Barrier Reef - Wikipedia

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    Lighthouse Reef is the most easterly diving area in Belize, it is home to the Great Blue Hole, made famous by Jacques Cousteau in 1970; Turneffe Atoll lies directly to the east of Belize City and is the nearest of the atolls to that city. These different reefs provide diverse scuba diving opportunities that include walls, pinnacles and reef ...