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The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.
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Menai and Bay
* Menai Bay Conservation Area
The county is bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Cardigan Bay and Merionethshire, and to the west by Caernarfon Bay and the Menai Strait, separating it from Anglesey.
One project was with the World Wildlife Fund, specifically in Menai Bay which is located just west of Uzi Island.
The Menai Strait heads north east to link the bay to Conwy Bay.
The River Conwy flows into Conwy Bay while the Menai Strait connects it to Caernarfon Bay.
* Menai Bay in the island of Zanzibar
Examples include The Rip between Point Nepean and Point Lonsdale at the entrance to Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia ; the Menai Strait between Anglesey and Wales ; or the Strait of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Menai and Conservation
The bridge would require support pillar ( s ) in the Menai Strait which is an environmental issue as the Strait is a Special Area of Conservation.
Menai and Area
* Menai High School is the major public secondary co-educational high school servicing the Menai Area.
Menai and is
* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
* January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
* January 30, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
Caernarfon is situated on the Eastern bank of the Menai Strait facing the Isle of Anglesey.
The mouth of the River Seiont is in the town, creating a natural harbour where it flows into the Menai Strait.
Heading north out of the town is the Lôn Las Menai cycle path to nearby Y Felinheli.
Coleg Menai is a further education college for adult learners.
The new stadium is on the outskirts of the city, at the University's former Nantporth playing field near the Menai Strait.
The north of the county, between the mountains and Menai Strait, is a nearly level plain.
Another ridge rises to the north of the High Street, dividing the city centre from the south shore of the Menai Strait ; this area is known as Upper Bangor ( Bangor Uchaf ).
The Menai Strait (, the " River Menai ") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.
The present day channel is a result of glacial erosion of the bedrock along a line of weakness associated with the Menai Strait Fault System.
The first of the opera's nine parts is called " The Battle of Menai Strait ".
* January 30-The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
Its entire length is a dual carriageway primary route, with the exception of the point where it crosses the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait.
The Bangor bypass, in which the road previously terminated and became the A5 regains high standards and is such through the Anglesey section, bar the Britannia Bridge, which is a single carriageway deck above the North Wales Coast railway over the Menai Strait.
It is possible that Ducetius founded the colony on the site of this already existing Sikel settlement, just as he had done at Menai and Paliké.
Bangor is located 28 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire in the area commonly called Menai.
Menai Bridge is a town opposite the original Bangor, on the Menai Strait in Wales.
The main road running through Bangor and Menai is Menai Road.
Menai and marine
The existence of this unique ecology was a major factor in the establishment of the School of Ocean Sciences at Menai Bridge, part of the University of Wales, Bangor as well as its status as a special area of conservation with marine components.
Menai and area
Abundant natural resources in and around the Menai Straits enabled human habitation in the Caernarfon area during pre-history.
* Photos of Menai Bridge and the surrounding area on Geograph
Menai is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
The area now known as Menai was originally called Bangor in 1895 by the land's owner, a farmer named Owen Jones, after his birthplace Bangor in Wales.
The biggest sporting club in the area are the Menai Hawks soccer club.
The valley provides the access to one of Wales's great waterfalls, the Aber Falls as the Afon Goch falls precipitously, some over a sill of igneous rock into a marshy area where it is joined by two tributaries ; the enlarged stream, Afon Rhaeadr Fawr, heads towards the Menai Strait and the sea.
Alfords Point is located 28 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire in the area commonly called Menai.
Illawong is located 27 kilometres south-west of the Sydney Central Business District, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire in the area commonly called Menai.
In the 1890s Menai was a farming area and Illawong, which was then known as East Menai, was an area where wealthy people of Sydney built holiday homes and weekenders.
This area was ravaged in the 1994 Eastern seaboard fires, which also caused destruction in the suburbs of Alfords Point, Menai and Como.
Menai and .
Other examples include Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait and Craigavon Bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland.
* May 23 – A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales, contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £ 1, 000, 000 worth of fire damage.
* March 5 – Opening of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait.
Telford also worked on the North Wales coast road between Chester and Bangor, including another major suspension bridge at Conwy, opened later the same year as its Menai counterpart.
Llywelyn made his ' capital ' and headquarters at Abergwyngregyn on the north coast, overlooking the Menai Strait.
It lies along the A487 road, on the east banks of the Menai Straits, opposite the Isle of Anglesey.
The location of the town creates a lovely view across the Afon Menai towards the south of Anglesey.
Telford claimed that no suspension bridge could exceed the span of his own Menai Suspension Bridge.
According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness, and was rejected by the Norwegians, refusing to fight in a Viking raid in Anglesey, Wales, because of his religious convictions, instead staying on board his ships during the Battle of Menai Strait, singing psalms.
The first of the protests took place during the morning rush hour at the Menai Suspension Bridge between Anglesey and Wales blocking the traffic.
The situation was changed by the arrival of a Norwegian fleet under the command of King Magnus III of Norway, also known as Magnus Barefoot, who attacked the Norman forces near the eastern end of the Menai Straits.
After this he joined the staff of the Chester and Holyhead Railway and then became assistant to Edwin Clark, working on the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait.
In the same year Stephenson and William Fairbairn's, Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait, was opened.
flowers, Menai Bridge, Wales.
The situation was changed by the arrival of a Norwegian fleet under the command of King Magnus III of Norway, also known as Magnus Barefoot, who attacked the Norman forces near the eastern end of the Menai Straits.
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