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The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize
The following is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. Some are caused by karst processes—for example, the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks[1] or suffosion processes.[2] Sinkholes can vary in size from 1 to 600 m (3 to 2,000 ft) both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. Sinkholes may form gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide.[3]
The Grotto, Victoria is a sinkhole geological formation and tourist attraction, found on the Great Ocean Road outside Port Campbell in Victoria, Australia
The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole
- Lake Guinas – a sinkhole lake, created by a collapsing karst cave, located 38 km (23+1⁄2 mi) west of Tsumeb
- Otjikoto Lake – a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing karst cave
A view of the Akhayat sinkhole
- 2014 National Corvette Museum sinkhole – a sinkhole at 350 Corvette Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Amberjack Hole – a blue hole located 48 km (30 mi) off the coast of Sarasota, Florida.
- Bayou Corne sinkhole – created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum, discovered on August 3, 2012, and 350 nearby residents were advised to evacuate
- Bering Sinkhole – natural limestone sinkhole in Texas used for prehistoric burials[4]
- Big Basin Prairie Preserve – St. Jacob's Well, Kansas, a water-filled sinkhole which lies in the Little Basin, and the Big Basin, a 1.5-kilometre-wide (1 mi) crater-like depression
- Blue Hole (Castalia) – a fresh water pond located in Castalia, Erie County, Ohio
- Blue Hole (New Mexico) – circular, bell-shaped pool east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico
- Bottomless Lakes State Park – Lazy Lagoon Lake, New Mexico, made up of three separate sinkholes
- Cedar Sink – a vertical-walled large depression in Kentucky.
- Daisetta, Texas – sits on a salt dome, in 1969, 1981, and again in 2008, sinkholes formed in the area
- Deep Lake (Florida) – a natural sinkhole in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida
- Deep Run Ponds Natural Area Preserve – contains one of the largest remaining systems of the Shenandoah Valley sinkhole ponds in Virginia
- Devil's Den Cave – a karst window over an underground river near Williston, Florida
- Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole - located in Coconino National Forest, Arizona
- Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park – located in Gainesville, Florida
- Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area – a natural bat habitat near Rocksprings in Edwards County, Texas
- Grassy Cove – an enclosed valley in Cumberland County, Tennessee notable for its karst formations
- Green Banana Hole – a blue hole located 80 km (50 mi) off the coast of Sarasota, Florida.
- Kingsley Lake – a lake is thought to have formed as a sinkhole about 10 km (6 mi) east of Starke, Florida
- Lake Eola Park – Lake Eola is a sinkhole located in downtown Orlando, Florida
- Lake Peigneur – was originally a shallow freshwater body in Louisiana, until a man-made disaster on November 20, 1980 changed its structure, affecting the surrounding land and making it a brackish water lake
- Little Salt Spring – a feature of the karst topography of Florida
- Makauwahi Cave – the largest limestone cave found in Kauai, Hawaii
- Marvel Cave – a National Natural Landmark west of Branson, Missouri, on top of Roark Mountain in Stone County
- Montezuma Well – a natural limestone sinkhole near Rimrock, Arizona
- Mount Joy Pond Natural Area Preserve – a large sinkhole pond located in Augusta County, Virginia
- NR-1 Sinkhole – an underwater sinkhole first located by the NR-1 submarine; located southwest of Key West, Florida
- Peter Sinks – a natural sinkhole in northern Utah, one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States
- Pipe Creek Sinkhole – near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, important paleontological site
- The Inkpot – 27 meter sinkhole located at the Salt Creek Wilderness Area north of Roswell, New Mexico
- Trout Pond – a sinkhole that filled with water near Wardensville in Hardy County, West Virginia
Dean's Blue Hole is the world's second deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level.
- Biržai Regional Park – a park in northern Lithuania established in 1992 to preserve a distinctive karst landscape
- Blue Hole (Red Sea) – a submarine sinkhole around 94 m (308 feet) deep in east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea.
- Dead Sea sinkholes
- Dean's Blue Hole – the world's second deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level; in the Bahamas
- Devil's Hole, Bermuda – a large water-filled sinkhole, close to the southeastern corner of Harrington Sound
- Great Blue Hole – a giant submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize
- Harwoods Hole – cave system located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand, New Zealand's deepest vertical shaft
- Hutchinson's Hole – a large sinkhole in Saint Ann Parish in northern Jamaica, used by a serial killer to dispose of bodies
- Playa de Gulpiyuri – a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, Spain
- 2018 Surabaya City sinkhole – a 30 m (98 ft) wide and 15 m (49 ft) deep sinkhole opened up on Gubeng Road in Surabaya, Indonesia during construction work on December 18, 2018.
- 2022 Tierra Amarilla sinkhole – a 25 m (80 ft) wide and more than 200 m (700 ft) deep sinkhole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla, Atacama Region of Chile close to the Alcaparrosa copper mine on August 1, 2022. The sinkhole continued to grow and stretched 50 m (200 ft) in diameter on August 8.[5]
- ^ Claimed by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam.