The Firth of Thames is the large bay to the southeast

* The Firth of Thames is a bay at the mouth of the Waihou River ( formerly named the Thames ) in New Zealand

This extended towards the Hunua Ranges close to the Firth of Thames, and took in such communities as Clevedon and Maraetai.

A fleet including HMS Eclipse, Esk, Fawn, Himalaya, Miranda, Orpheus, Wasp, gunboats ; Koheroa, Paparata, Rangiriri and various support vessels ; Kate, Light of the Age, Prince Albert, Reliance, Sandfly, Sir Harry Smith, Spitfire, Star of India, Stuart, Wakool and Tarawera supported the war effort either on the Waikato River, landing troops and supplies at Miranda in the Firth Of Thames, or bringing troops and a regular stream of supplies from Australia.

The large outflow of volcanic debris blocked the old channel to the Firth of Thames at Lake Karapiro and forced the river to turn west and then north.

It is 75 kilometres east of the city of Auckland, although the road between them, which winds around the Firth of Thames and Hauraki Gulf coasts, is 190 km long.

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In the east, the land rises to the Hunua Ranges, to the east of which is the coast of the Firth of Thames.

In 1863 a field work was constructed on what is now called Stockade Hill, for the purpose of defending Auckland from hostile Māoris who might advance overland from the south, or by canoes from the Firth of Thames.

Located at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula, it is close to the junction of the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers, 20 kilometres from the coast at the Firth of Thames.

At the southern end of the Hauraki Gulf is the wide, relatively shallow Firth of Thames.

Also particularly damaging are the results of nitrogen carried into the gulf from surrounding agricultural land, with almost 90 % coming from the dairy-farming runoff into the Firth of Thames.

Other exploitation such as the dredging of the mussel beds of the Firth of Thames, reaching its height in 1961 with an estimated 15 million mussels taken ( shortly before collapse of the industry ) have led to damages which have not been recovered forty years later, possibly due to the dredging having destroyed the underwater surfaces, and sediment drainage from the agriculture in the Firth of Thames affecting the mussle's viability.

It is part of the Waikato Region and Thames-Coromandel District and extends 85 kilometres north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier to protect the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.

Several small towns dot the coast of the Firth of Thames in the southwest.

It is located on the Firth of Thames close to the mouth of the Waihou River.

Prior to the 1970s, South Auckland encompassed the region from Otahuhu south to Mercer, and from the west coast to the Firth of Thames, including the southern towns of Pukekohe, Tuakau and Waiuku.

The Firth of Thames is the large bay to the southeast.

The Firth of Thames is an important site for waders or shorebirds, and is listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.

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In the 2007 film version of the novel, he is played by Colin Firth and his name becomes " Aurelianus Caius Antonius ".

It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond.

The extent of Kenneth's nameless kingdom is uncertain, but it certainly extended from the Firth of Forth in the south to the Mounth in the north.

Aleandro is depicted by Jonathan Firth in the 2003 film Luther as the main antagonist.

In common with the rest of Scotland the Firth of Clyde was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages and the landscape is much affected by glaciation.

The Firth of Clyde, in which these island lie, is north of the Irish Sea and has numerous branching inlets, some of them substantial features in their own right.

For example, the Firth is deep between Arran and Bute, although they are only apart.

This was followed by a wave of Neolithic peoples using the same route and there is some evidence that the Firth of Clyde was a significant route via which mainland Scotland was colonised at this time.

The northernmost location cited in Britain at the Firth of Clyde is now northern Scotland.

This location is in the vicinity of the Firth of Clyde.

Riddarfjärden, literally The Knight Firth, is a bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm.

Rickman is to star with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in a remake of 1966's Gambit by the Coen brothers.

* Pentland Firth is more a strait than a firth.

In older English it is used to mean Scotland generally, and in particular the part of Scotland north of the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde.

The occultist and writer Dion Fortune ( Violet Mary Firth ) lived and is buried in Glastonbury.

* Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man, an autobiography based on these events, which is being made into a film of the same name starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

Ayrshire (;, ) is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

In this period, the kingdom of Strathclyde may have extended far to the south, perhaps beyond the Solway Firth into modern English Cumbria, although this is far from certain.

The Solway Firth () is a firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria ( including the Solway Plain ) and Dumfries and Galloway.

Unlike other parts of the west coast of Scotland, the Solway Firth is generally devoid of islands.

Great Cumbrae ( Scottish Gaelic, Cumaradh Mòr ; also known as Cumbrae or the Isle of Cumbrae ) is the larger of the two islands known as The Cumbraes in the lower Firth of Clyde in western Scotland.

Little Cumbrae () is an island in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

Interestingly ancient documents have the town's name spelt ' Holm Frith ' which can be translated as ' Holly Wood ', though the word " Firth " is an old English name meaning ' wood and woodland ' indicating the name means Holme woods.

Millport ( Scottish Gaelic: Port a ' Mhuilinn ) is the only town on the island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of North Ayrshire, Scotland.