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Thor's Well at Cape Perpetua on the coast of Oregon, USA

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Thor's Well at Cape Perpetua on the coast of Oregon, USA (© Cavan Images/Offset by Shutterstock)

Whose 'well' is this?

We are standing here on the USA's craggy Oregon coast looking out to Thor’s Well, with the help of a photographer’s telephoto lens. Only the most daring of visitors would stand this close at high tide, while the Pacific Ocean raged around them. Dubbed a ‘gaping sinkhole,’ the ‘drainpipe of the Pacific’ and even a ‘gate to hell’, it is not actually a bottomless pit. It is about 20ft (6m) deep and is accessible by foot at low tide, when you can peer in to see its mechanisms at work.
© Cavan Images/Offset by Shutterstock