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Dean's Blue Hole is a
blue hole located in
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of ...
in a bay west of
Clarence Town on
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...
and is the world's third deepest with a depth of , after the
Taam Ja' Blue Hole in the
Chetumal Bay and the
Dragon Hole in the
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...
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Landforms of the Bahamas
Sea caves
Marine geology
Underwater diving sites in the Caribbean
Long Island, Bahamas
Sinkholes of North America