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A SINKHOLE that opened up south of Bowen forced the closure of the Bruce Highway last night.
The Queensland Police Service Facebook page labelled the hole a "sinkhole", but photographs published on social media sparked debate about whether it was indeed a sinkhole or just a large pothole.
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Either way, the large hole caused the closure of both lanes of the highway from Bowen to Proserpine about 8.30pm.
Authorities were hoping to reopen the major arterial this morning.
A Queensland police spokeswoman said the hole was reported about 7.15pm, with police initially closing just one northbound lane.
But all north and southbound lanes were closed for safety reasons by the Department of Main Roads about 8.30pm, with the highway closed from the Barrier Reef Roadhouse at Bowen in the north to just north of Proserpine.
Police diverted traffic through Collinsville last night, while truckies to the north of the closure were taking the inland highway around the sinkhole.
The 2m-wide hole was reported to be growing last night, with engineers and geologists expected to inspect the site today.
The sinkhole in the Bruce Highway south of Bowen.
Bowen Palms Caravan Park manager Bev Hartz said police told her that the sinkhole had opened up near the bridge over Kangaroo Creek, about 20km south of Bowen.
"We did get a lot of flooding from Cyclone Ita so maybe it's something to do with that," she said.
"After Ita, the highway was closed in a few places and the rail line was wiped out at some stage."
Other local residents were in the dark about the disruption.
Truckies told the Townsville Bulletin that the sinkhole opened near the bridge with traffic initially allowed through until a decision was made to fully close the highway.
They described it, in true truckie fashion, as just a "big bloody hole".
Sinkholes, which are relatively rare, generally occur when water eats away at the earth or bedrock, such as limestone, below the surface causing the ground to collapse.
Potholes are far more common along the Bruce Highway.
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