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Algoa Bay Algoa Bay
Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape/South Africa Angra da Roca, Bahía da Lagoa First named by the Portuguese ‘Bay of Rocks’ from angra ‘bay’ in 1488, it was later changed to ‘Lagoon Bay’. The present name may be derived from the second Portuguese name. However,... Read more
Walvis Bay Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay , municipality (1991 pop. 12,100), W central Namibia, on Walvis Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. Walvis Bay is Namibia's most important port and the terminus of a railroad from the hinterland. Fishing fleets are stationed there, and the town has fish canneries. Salt is harvested. The... Read more
Cam Ranh Bay Cam Ranh Bay
Cam Ranh Bay , inlet of the South China Sea, 10 mi (16 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, S Vietnam. It is an excellent harbor linked to the sea by a strait (1 mi/1.6 km wide). The bay was the site of one of the largest U.S. military facilities (est. 1965) in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and... Read more
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bight broad bend or curve in a coastline, forming a large open bay. The New York bight, for example, is the curve in the coast described by the southern shore of Long Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey. The term bight may also refer to the bay so formed.... Read more
Hudson Bay Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay inland sea of North America, c.475,000 sq mi (1,230,000 sq km), c.850 mi (1,370 km) long and c.650 mi (1,050 km) wide, E central Canada. Hudson Bay and James Bay (its southern extension) and all their islands border Nunavut Territory, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. Hudson Strait (c.450... Read more
Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal
Bay of Bengal arm of the Indian Ocean, c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) long and 1,000 mi (1,610 km) wide, bordered on the W by Sri Lanka and India, on the N by Bangladesh, and on the E by Myanmar and Thailand; the Andaman and Nicobar Islands separate it from the Andaman Sea, its eastern arm. The bay receives... Read more
Glace Bay Glace Bay
Glace Bay , town (1991 pop. 19,501), E Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada. Exploitation of its coal mines began toward the end of the 19th cent., but declined in the 1960s; the last mine in the region closed in 2001. Its mines extended for several miles under the sea and were among the best equipped... Read more
Morecambe Morecambe
Morecambe, England/UK Morikambe was first noted in a work by Ptolemy† c.150 probably from the Celtic mori ‘sea’ and cambi ‘curved’, thus ‘Curved Inlet’. It did not survive. However, in the 18th century a local historian believed the name referred to... Read more

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Float Like a Fish, Sting Like a Bee
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...JELLYFISH, bane of Chesapeake Bay and ocean swimmers, have...mainly wonder: Visitors may come away with only a...practical information as first aid for jellyfish stings...West Coast and East Coast sea nettles, the stinger-laden...bedevil our ...

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