Blue Hole
The Blue Hole is a diving location on the southeast Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. The Blue Hole is a blue hole, with a maximum depth within the hole of just over 100 m.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ras Abu Galum and Dahab.
Ras Abu Galum
Ras Abu Galum is in the Sinai region of Egypt.Dahab
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dahab is a town in Egypt, 85 km north of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba, near the southern tip of Sinai. It is a place that many have fallen in love with over the years, and return to time and time again.
Blue Hole
- Type: Hole with an elevation of 19 metres
- Description: submarine sinkhole a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt
- Categories: blue hole and body of water
- Location: South Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Blue Hole” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الثقب الأزرق”
- Cebuano: “Blue Hole (lungag sa dagat sa Ehipto)”
- Cebuano: “Blue Hole”
- Chinese: “藍洞 (紅海)”
- Dutch: “Blue Hole”
- French: “Blue Hole (mer Rouge)”
- French: “Blue Hole”
- German: “Blue Hole (Ägypten)”
- German: “Blue Hole”
- Hebrew: “החור הכחול”
- Italian: “Blue Hole”
- Polish: “Blue Hole”
- Portuguese: “Buraco Azul (Mar Vermelho)”
- Portuguese: “Buraco Azul”
- Russian: “Голубая дыра (Красное море)”
- Russian: “Голубая Дыра (Красное море)”
- Russian: “Голубая дыра”
- Spanish: “Agujero azul de Dahab”
- Swedish: “Blue Hole (sänka i Egypten)”
- Swedish: “Blue Hole”
- Turkish: “Mavi Çukur (Kızıldeniz)”
- Turkish: “Mavi Çukur”
- Ukrainian: “Блакитна діра”
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