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  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. Belize's Great Blue Hole is mysterious and thrilling

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    The Great Blue Hole in Belize was declared by Jacques Cousteau to be one of the top five dive sites in the world. Discovery Channel referred to it as one of the ten most amazing places on earth.

  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. Portal:Belize/Selected article - Wikipedia

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    The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize. The Great Blue Hole is a large underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 kilometres (43 mi) * from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, over 300 metres (984 ft) * across and 124 metres (407 ft) * deep.

  7. Insights into Mayan civilization's collapse found in Belize's ...

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    Researchers studying sediment in Belize's Blue Hole have found that the weather may actually have been what caused the collapse of the Mayan civilization. Theories as to why a civilization as ...

  8. 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.

  9. Man dives into underwater sinkhole in stunning, terrifying video

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    Prepare for your jaw to drop. Guillaume Nery, a fearless BASE jumper, decided to take on a massive underwater sinkhole, also known as a blue hole, in the Bahamas, and created an incredible film ...