Bimmah Sinkhole (Hawaiyat Najm) is located approximately, one and half hours away from the capital city of Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman. A lake of turquoise waters, 50m by 70 m wide, 20 – 30 m deep and 600m away from the sea,[1] the sinkhole was formed by a collapse of the Earth’s upper crust layer due to erosion. However, locals believe that it was created by a meteorite, ‘Hawaiyat Najm’ which translates to ‘The Falling Star’ in Arabic and thus the name.
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