Great Blue Hole

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of . It lies near the center of , a small atoll 70 km from the mainland and .
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize
  • Also known as: “Great Blue Hole (sänka i Belize)”, “Большая синяя дыра”, “Велика Блакитна печера”, “Великая голубая дыра”, “Голубая впадина”, “Синяя дыра”, and “그레이트 블루 홀”

Great Blue Hole

Latitude
17.31593° or 17° 18′ 57″ north
Longitude
-87.53476° or 87° 32′ 5″ west
Open location code
769J8F88+93
Open­Street­Map ID
way 129894734
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­cenote
Geo­Names ID
6941985
Wiki­data ID
Q86486
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Great Blue Hole” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الثقب الأزرق العظيم”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ երկնագույն անցք”
  • Asturian: “Gran furacu azul”
  • Bavarian: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікая блакітная дзіра”
  • Bengali: “গ্রেট ব্লু হোল”
  • Catalan: “gran forat blau”
  • Catalan: “Gran forat blau”
  • Cebuano: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Chinese: “大蓝洞”
  • Chinese: “大藍洞”
  • Croatian: “Velika Plava Rupa”
  • Czech: “Velká modrá díra”
  • Dutch: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الثقب الازرق العظيم”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Blua Truo”
  • Finnish: “Great Blue Hole”
  • French: “Grand Trou Bleu”
  • Galician: “Gran Buraco Azul”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ცისფერი ორმო”
  • German: “Blue Hole Natural Monument”
  • German: “Great Blue Hole”
  • German: “Großes blaues Loch”
  • Hebrew: “החור הכחול הגדול”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy Kék Lyuk”
  • Indonesian: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Italian: “Grande Voragine Blu”
  • Italian: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ブルーホール”
  • Kazakh: “Үлкен Көгілдір Ойық”
  • Korean: “그레이트 블루홀”
  • Kurdish: “Korta şîn a mezin”
  • Lithuanian: “Didžioji Žydroji skylė”
  • Macedonian: “Голема сина дупка”
  • Malay: “Lubang Biru Besar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Norwegian: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Persian: “گودال آبی بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Blue Hole”
  • Polish: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Buraco Azul”
  • Portuguese: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Romanian: “Marea Gaură Albastră”
  • Russian: “Большая голубая дыра”
  • Serbian: “Велика плава рупа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Velika Plava Rupa”
  • Slovak: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Slovenian: “Velika modra luknja”
  • Spanish: “Gran Agujero Azul”
  • Swedish: “Blå hålet”
  • Swedish: “Great Blue Hole”
  • Tamil: “அபார நீலத்துளை”
  • Tatar: “Зур зәңгәр тишек”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Mavi Çukur”
  • Ukrainian: “Велика синя діра”
  • Ukrainian: “Велика Синя Печера”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Great Blue Hole”

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