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The bay faces Cook Strait, stretching north-south over a distance of 30 kilometres from the southern extremity of the Marlborough Sounds ( Port Underwood ) to White Bluffs.
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Sumner Bay is the first bay on the northern side of Banks Peninsula and faces Pegasus Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
The site faces the Pacific coast and it is visible from many parts of the bay of Valparaíso.
The city faces the Ishikari Bay, and has long served as the main port of the bay.
Lindos is situated in a large bay and faces the fishing village and small resort of Haraki.
Deep Bay faces threats, including pollution, and rising mudflat levels that perhaps arise from intense urbanization, especially ( in recent years ) on the north, Shenzhen side of the bay.
Though in ruins since at least the 17th century, it is impressive due to its site, and a converted house incorporating the castle walls which faces west over the town, the bay and the Irish Sea is still inhabited.
Santa Barbara Bastion ( Baluarte de Santa Bárbara ) faces the bay and Pasig River ; Baluarte de San Miguel, faces the bay ; Medio Baluarte de San Francisco, Pasig River.
Similar to the ballpark's downtown views, the arena has a by bay window that faces southeast and shows off the city's industrial Flats.
Isogo faces this bay.
With their faces to the foe, firing as they retired, they kept the Zulus at bay.
The town faces a small bay which is favoured with a broad sheltered beach.
Lusik faces out to the open ocean, and Marut borders a bay overlooking Kabukum Island.
The bay is open to the northwest, and faces the Montes Spitzbergen, a small chain of mountains.
There are now three islands with seven platform faces plus the bay linked by both a long footbridge and a subway.
The name Radnor Park was adopted in 1886, and for a few years with just two platform faces, the station was rebuilt in 1890 to add a bay.
The new station has two platform islands, the outer sides of each providing through services, the inner bay faces supporting terminating services.
bay and Cook
* April 29 – James Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 km ( 10 mi ) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia.
Cook also drafted the first map of the bay of Nuku ' alofa.
Captain James Cook, sailing in HM Bark Endeavour, sailed into the bay on 12 October 1769.
The more swampy western shores of the bay were not so favoured, and have been used mainly for non-residential purposes such as the Point Cook Royal Australian Air Force base and the Werribee Sewage Farm.
* April 29-Captain Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 km ( 10 mi ) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia.
* 1770-Captain Cook names Broken bay.
Cook named the bay " Hervey's Bay " after Augustus John Hervey ( 1724 – 1779 ), later Third Earl of Bristol, a naval officer who became a Lord of the Admiralty the year Endeavour returned ".
Cook and his party explored around Kurnell Peninsula, and left the bay on May 6.
The bay provides winter homes for 90 % of the seabird and waterfowl populations of Lower Cook Inlet.
The southwest branch, between Hoste Island and Gordon Island, enters Cook Bay, a bay of the Pacific Ocean.
A recent Waitangi Tribunal settlement will see Cloudy Bay, given this name by Captain Cook in 1770, renamed Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay, with the Māori name recalling the early explorer Kupe scooping up oysters from the bay
Although he was able to obtain some herbs to ward off scurvy, Cook was unable to gain many of the provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it the name Poverty Bay.
An island in the bay was originally named Spöring Island by Cook, after his expedition's assistant naturalist and instrument maker, Herman Spöring, a Finnish botanist.
This bay was named by the English navigator Captain James Cook during his exploratory expeditions.
On 9 November 1769, Cook landed on the shores of this bay to observe a Transit of Mercury.
This large sheltered bay was later renamed by Captain James Cook when he came here in November 1769 to observe the transit of Mercury.
The sighting of the Transit of Mercury is commemorated at Cooks Beach by a cairn of Coromandel granite which tells the story ; " In this bay was anchored 5 Nov 1769, HMS Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook RN, Commander.
The bay itself is a part of the Cook Shire ( seated in Cooktown ), but few people have settled the bay area.
Early coastal explorers, James Cook and Matthew Flinders both failed to identify the bay.
In 1908, he wrote a letter to The Times which led to the erection of a statue of Captain Cook in London, and on his suggestion, the territorial government of Hawaii later dedicated to the public, the land surrounding the bay where Cook was killed.
bay and Strait
Before about 1860, most bay shores ( exception: rocky shores such as those in Carquinez Strait, along Marin shoreline, Point Richmond, Golden Gate area ) contained extensive wetlands that graded nearly invisibly from freshwater wetlands to salt marsh and then tidal mudflat.
In 1790, Spanish explorer Manuel Quimper traded copper sheets for sea otter pelts at Discovery Bay, for live sea otters captured north of the bay in the “ interior ” of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
On the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait ; on the north, with the Arctic Ocean by Foxe Basin ( which is not considered part of the bay ), and Fury and Hecla Strait.
The Tartar Strait was a puzzle to European explorers since, when approached from the south, it becomes increasingly shallow and looks like the head of a bay.
It is located on the spit separating the bay of Port Clarence from the Bering Strait.
The following year, Baffin again sailed as pilot of the Discovery, sailing to the west of Greenland and north up through the Davis Strait, where he discovered the large bay to the north which now bears his name, together with the series of straits which radiate from its head and were named by him Lancaster, Smith and Jones Sounds, in honour of the patrons of his voyages.
The Yarra and other tributaries flowed down what is now the middle of the bay, formed a lake in the southern reaches of the bay, dammed by The Heads, subsequently pouring out into Bass Strait.
The bay, the only deep sea port between Adelaide and Melbourne, offers a sheltered anchorage against the often wild weather of Bass Strait.
On April 17th 1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the Strait now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he baptised Santa Margherita in honour of the King of France ’ s sister.
San Pablo Bay also receives the waters of Sonoma Creek through the Napa Sonoma Marsh, San Rafael Creek, and the Petaluma River directly, and the Napa River which flows into the Carquinez Strait via the Mare Island Strait near its entrance into the bay.
The Menai Strait heads north east to link the bay to Conwy Bay.
Western Port, is sometimes called " Western Port Bay ", is a large tidal bay in southern Victoria, Australia opening into Bass Strait.
Deep channels lead from Bass Strait into the western section of the bay, giving access to the region's port facilities.
Waituna Lagoon is located halfway along the bay, and towards the eastern end the Mataura River has its outflow into the Foveaux Strait.
Oreti Beach is the central bay of three lying on the Foveaux Strait coast of Southland, New Zealand, the others being Te Waewae Bay and Toetoes Bay.
The ferry operates on the Kamenari-Lepetane line at Verige Strait, eliminating the need to go all the way around Boka Kotorska bay in order to reach Tivat, Kotor, Budva and inland Montenegro.
On 15 December, a huge Japanese fleet was amassed in Sach ' on bay, on the east end of the Noryang Strait.
The second most popular version narrates that during the pre-Spanish era, a small bay along Tañon Strait ( on the southwestern part of Cebu ) was a village called ‘ Dunggoan ’ ( dock or wharf ).
It is separated from the Caspian Sea proper, which lies immediately to the west, by a narrow, rocky ridge having a very narrow opening in the rock through which the Caspian waters flow, cascading down into Garabogazköl ( whence the name of the bay —" Mighty Strait Lake " in the Turkmen language — comes ).
North of Ilulissat and west of Aluttoq Island the bay transforms into Sullorsuaq Strait separating Qeqertarsuaq from Nuussuaq Peninsula.
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