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Dragon Hole is about 100 metres (330 ft) deeper than Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. There are several fresh water sinkholes on land that are deeper than Dragon Hole. These include Mexico's Zacatón (335 metres (1,099 ft)), Pozzo del Merro in Italy (392 metres (1,286 ft)) [4] [5] and Hranice abyss in the Czech Republic (404 metres (1,325 ft)).
Dragon Hole – the deepest underwater sinkhole , located in the Drummond Island reef of the Paracel Islands (also known as the Xisha Islands) in the South China Sea. [ a ] Xiaozhai Tiankeng – the deepest sinkhole in the world (over 650 meters), located in Fenjie County of Chongqing Municipality .
A feature of the Paracel Islands is Dragon Hole, the second deepest blue hole (underwater sinkhole) in the world. Sea turtles and seabirds are native to the islands, which have a hot and humid climate, abundant rainfall and may experience annual typhoons. The archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and a seabed containing ...
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.
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Dean's Blue Hole is a blue hole located in The Bahamas in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island and is the world's third deepest with a depth of 202 metres (663 ft), after the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in the Chetumal Bay and the Dragon Hole in the South China Sea.
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).