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blue hole
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 contain tidally influenced water of fresh, ma ...
is a submarine cave or sinkhole. It may also refer to:
Water-filled holes
In the Bahamas
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Blue Holes National Park, Andros, which claims 22 blue holes
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Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island
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Far Side Blue Hole, also known as Magical Blue Hole,
Abaco Islands
The Abaco Islands lie in the north of Bahamas, The Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida, US. The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco, which is just west of Great Abaco's northern tip.
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Lost Reel Blue Hole,
Abaco Islands
The Abaco Islands lie in the north of Bahamas, The Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida, US. The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco, which is just west of Great Abaco's northern tip.
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Nancy’s Blue Hole, near
Coopers Town, Abaco
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Watling's Blue Hole on
San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an islands of the Bahamas, island and districts of The Bahamas, district of The Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 Oc ...
In Belize
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Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a large Blue hole, marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, across and deep. It has a surface ...
on Lighthouse Reef
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Blue Hole National Park, inland near Belmopan, Cayo District
In the United States
In Arkansas
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Blue Hole (Desha County, Arkansas), four lakes named Blue Hole in
List of lakes in Desha County, Arkansas
There are at least 78 named lakes and reservoir
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
Reservoirs are created by controlli ...
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Blue Hole (Lafayette County, Arkansas), in
List of lakes in Lafayette County, Arkansas
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Blue Hole (Lee County, Arkansas) in
List of lakes in Lee County, Arkansas
There are at least 39 named lakes and reservoirs in Lee County, Arkansas.
Lakes
* Anderson Lake, , el.
* Bain Lake, , el.
* Big Twin Lake, , el.
* Big Yancopin Lake, , el.
* Blue Hole, , el.
* Blue Lake, , el.
* Box Lake, , el. ...
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Blue Hole (Monroe County, Arkansas) in
List of lakes in Monroe County, Arkansas
Elsewhere in the U.S.
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Blue Hole (Big Pine Key), an abandoned rock quarry in the Florida Keys
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Blue Hole (Guam), outside the entrance to
Apra Harbor
Apra Harbor, also called Port Apra, is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam. It is considered one of the best natural ports in the Pacific Ocean. The harbor is bounded by Cabras Island and the Glass Breakwat ...
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Blue Hole (Hawaii), also known as Wailua Headwaters, the start of the North Folk of the
Wailua River
Wailua, Hawaiian for ''two waters'', may refer to:
Places
Hawaii, United States
Kauai
*Wailua, Kauai, a town on the east coast
**Wailuā Homesteads, Hawaii, a nearby town in the hills to the west
*Wailua River, a river in eastern Kauai
**Wailua ...
at Mount Waialeale on Kauai, Hawaii
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Blue Hole (New Jersey)
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Blue Hole (New Mexico), a cenóte and popular altitude scuba diving site
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Blue Hole (Castalia), in Castalia, Ohio
* Blue Hole, the largest of the
San Antonio Springs, Texas
Elsewhere
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Blue Hole (Red Sea) in Egypt
* Blue Hole, associated with the
Inland Sea, Gozo
The Inland Sea, sometimes called Qawra in Maltese and also known as Dwejra, is a lagoon of seawater on the island of Gozo linked to the Mediterranean Sea through an opening formed by a narrow natural arch.
It was probably formed where a geologi ...
on Malta, Italy
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Blue Holes (Palau), north of
Blue Corner, Palau
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Nanda Blue Hole, also known as Jackie's Blue Hole, on
Espiritu Santo
Espiritu Santo (, ; ) is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of and a population of around 40,000 according to the 2009 census.
Geography
The island belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region ...
, Vanuatu
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Virgin Blue Hole, south of
Blue Corner, Palau
* Yongle Blue Hole, also known as
Dragon Hole, in the Paracel Islands, China
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Blue Holes (Saudi Arabia)
Other
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Bluehole, Inc. (formerly Bluehole Studio, Inc.), the developer of ''TERA'', ''Devilian'' and ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds''.
**Bluehole Interactive, the former name of
En Masse Entertainment.
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Bluehole, Kentucky, a postoffice
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''Blue Hole'', a manga series by Yukinobu Hoshino
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