Sansha Yongle Dragon Hole
Dragon Hole, also known as Sansha Yongle Blue Hole after the third Ming emperor, Yongle, was the deepest known blue hole in the world at 300.89 metres deep from 2016 until it was discovered that the Taam Ja' surpassed it in 2024.- Body of water
- Description: deep underwater sinkhole in the South China Sea
- Also known as“Dragon Hole”“Sansha Yongle Blue hole”“Yongle Blue Hole”“永乐蓝洞”
- Category: blue hole
- Location
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Latitude
16.52477° or 16° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
111.76797° or 111° 46′ 5″ east
Open location code
7P8HGQF9+W5
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Sansha Yongle Dragon Hole” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “三沙永乐龙洞”
- Czech: “Dračí Díra”
- Danish: “Dragehullet”
- French: “Trou du Dragon”
- German: “Drachenloch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dragehullet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dragon Hole”
- Norwegian: “Dragon Hole”
- Persian: “چاه آبی اژدها”
- Turkish: “Ejder Çukuru”
- Ukrainian: “Блакитна діра Юнле”
- Ukrainian: “Блакитна печера Санша”
- Ukrainian: “Діра дракона”
- Ukrainian: “Печера дракона Санша Юнле”
- Vietnamese: “Hố Rồng (Tam Sa Vĩnh Lạc Long Động)”
- Vietnamese: “Lỗ Rồng”
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