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The Kiama Blowhole is a dramatic coastal geological formation located in Kiama, New South Wales. It’s notable for its impressive displays of pressurized seawater ejected high into the air – reaching heights of up to 25 meters. This natural phenomenon occurs due to underground water sources and wave...

Spouting Horn is a natural geological formation on Kauai’s Poipu coastline. It functions as a blowhole where ocean waves repeatedly drive seawater upwards through a submerged lava tube. This creates a dramatic vertical spray visible from a considerable distance. The phenomenon is notable for its con...

La Bufadora is a marine geyser located on the Punta Banda peninsula approximately 35 kilometers south of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Ocean waves surge into an underwater sea cave, compressing trapped air and forcing seawater upward through a narrow opening in the rocky cliff face, creating a...

The Cape Perpetua Spouting Horn is a natural geological feature located on the central coast of Oregon, within the Siuslaw National Forest. It operates as a marine geyser, where incoming ocean waves are forced through a narrow channel into a sea cave, compressing the air inside. This compression for...

Thunder Hole is a natural coastal inlet on Mount Desert Island within Acadia National Park in Maine. Under suitable tide and wave conditions, incoming water enters a narrow rock channel and compresses air inside, producing a resonant booming sound and bursts of spray. A viewing area beside Park Loop...

The Blowholes are a coastal geological feature in Torndirrup National Park near Albany on the south coast of Western Australia. Ocean swell enters fissures and cavities in the granite coastline, forcing air and sometimes spray upward through openings in the rock; their activity varies with wave dire...

Halona Blowhole is a natural geological feature on the southeastern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, located at Halona Point along Kalaniana'ole Highway. Incoming surf pushes water into a submerged lava tube, forcing compressed seawater upward through a narrow opening in the rock, producing a spray. The heigh...

The Little Kiama Blowhole is a coastal geological feature located near the town of Kiama in New South Wales, Australia. It operates as a smaller secondary counterpart to the area's larger main blowhole, which is a major tourist attraction. When strong ocean swells force water into the subterranean s...

Blowing Rocks Preserve is a protected coastal site maintained by The Nature Conservancy on Jupiter Island in Florida. Its shoreline exposes Anastasia limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of shell fragments; during rough seas and favorable tides, waves forced through gaps in the rock can se...

Eaglehawk Neck Blowhole is a coastal rock formation on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula, reached from Blowhole Road in the Tasman National Park area. Waves enlarged a natural zone of closely spaced joints in nearly horizontal Permian siltstone and sandstone, forming a cave and opening through which air a...

Bufadero de La Garita is a coastal blowhole at La Garita beach in Telde, on Gran Canaria in Spain. It formed where marine erosion created openings in volcanic coastal rock, allowing waves to force air and seawater through the formation. When Atlantic surf reaches the cavity, the pressure produces a...

The Gloup is a coastal blowhole and collapsed sea-cave formation on Fetlar in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Waves enter the opening and force air and water through the broken cave system, producing loud bursts and spray when the sea is rough. The name is connected with an Old Norse word for a ch...

Fingal Head Blowhole is a coastal geological feature at Fingal Head on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia. The headland is formed from dark basalt, and parts of its shoreline expose regular hexagonal columns created as lava cooled and fractured. When waves enter openings in the rock d...

Yesnaby Blowhole is a natural coastal feature located on the rugged west coast of mainland Orkney, Scotland. It operates as a wave-driven geological vent where seawater is forced upward through a vertical shaft in the Old Red Sandstone cliffs during heavy swells. The blowhole is situated near the pr...

Castlepoint Blowhole is a wave-eroded coastal feature at Castlepoint on the Wairarapa coast of New Zealand's North Island. It lies near Castlepoint Lighthouse, a historic landmark that began operating in 1913. The blowhole is formed by the action of waves against coastal rock and is part of a shorel...

Bonavista Blowhole is a coastal geological feature near Cape Bonavista on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula in Canada. Waves force seawater through an opening and cavity in the coastal rock, producing bursts of spray when conditions are suitable. The feature is visited as part of the area's coastal...

Umhlanga Rocks Blowhole is a geological feature on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, noted for forcing ocean water through a sea cave during periods of heavy swells.

Tatapouri Blowhole is a coastal feature near Gisborne, New Zealand, in the Poverty Bay region where James Cook made his first New Zealand landfall in October 1769.

The Mtwalume Blowhole is a natural coastal geyser situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, notable for its dramatic plumes of sea spray generated by rough Indian Ocean waves.