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Maho Beach
Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of Sint Maarten at the end of Princess Juliana International Airport's runway, famous for planes passing low overhead.
Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Bay is an Atlantic bay at the southern end of the Gulf of Maine between Cape Ann and Cape Cod, namesake of the 1628 Massachusetts Bay Company and Colony, with semidiurnal tides, Stellwagen Bank, and 12,000 years of Native habitation.
Matagorda Bay
Matagorda Bay is a large estuary on the central Texas Gulf coast, fed by the Lavaca and Colorado Rivers and sheltered from the Gulf by Matagorda Peninsula.
McLeod Bay
McLeod Bay names several bays: an official bay on the British Columbia coast (CGNDB key JBKQU), a deep East Arm basin of Great Slave Lake, NWT, a bay on Dall Island, Alaska, and a bay on Gauer Lake, Manitoba.
Mobile Bay
Mobile Bay is a shallow estuary on Alabama's Gulf coast, the sixth largest estuary in the continental United States, with the city of Mobile at its head.
Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is a bay on central California's Pacific coast, protected as the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (designated 1992). Monterey Submarine Canyon, upwelling, and hundreds of shipwrecks distinguish it.
New York Harbor
New York Harbor is the tidal estuary and natural deepwater port at the Hudson River mouth shared by New York and New Jersey. Busiest world harbor by 1865; today hosts NOAA NYOFS/PORTS navigation systems and major oyster and habitat restoration.
Norton Sound
Norton Sound: shallow Bering Sea inlet on Alaska's west coast south of the Seward Peninsula, named by Captain Cook in 1778 for Sir Fletcher Norton; receives the Yukon River, home to Nome and subsistence salmon fisheries.
Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Ocean Beach is San Francisco's roughly five-mile Pacific shoreline south of the Cliff House, backed by the Great Highway and O'Shaughnessy seawall, an erosion hot spot studied by USGS, and fronted since 2025 by the car-free Sunset Dunes park.
Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound is a large glacial embayment of the Gulf of Alaska in south-central Alaska, near Cordova, Valdez, and Whittier, known for its tidewater glaciers, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Barry Arm landslide-tsunami hazard.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a deep glacial fjord estuary in Washington state within the Salish Sea, the largest US estuary by volume, with two-layer exchange circulation, dissolved-oxygen impairment from nutrients, and major salmon, shellfish, and port economies.
Puget Sound region
Puget Sound region: northwestern Washington area around the glacial fjord-like estuary Puget Sound and the Salish Sea straits. 13 counties, Coast Salish tribes, 1854-56 treaties, Seattle metro GDP $487.8 billion (2023), 70-80% estuarine habitat lost.
Saginaw Bay
Saginaw Bay, a large shallow embayment of western Lake Huron in Michigan fed by the Saginaw River, known for its historic lumber era, walleye fishery, and Area of Concern contamination and restoration.
San Diego Bay
San Diego Bay is a crescent-shaped natural harbor in southern California, 18 miles long behind the Silver Strand. Entered by Cabrillo in 1542, settled in 1769, managed since 1962 by the Port of San Diego, and home to the Navy's Third Fleet.
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is the largest Pacific estuary in the Americas, a 1,600-square-mile tidal estuary where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet the Pacific through the Golden Gate, shaped by ice-age filling, Gold Rush sediment, and modern restoration.
San Matías Gulf
San Matías Gulf (Golfo San Matías), Argentina's large semi-enclosed Patagonian gulf between Río Negro and Chubut, about 19,700 km², tide-dominated, high salinity, right whale habitat, and site of contested LNG and oil export projects.
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is Florida's largest open-water estuary, a shallow Y-shaped embayment of about 1,036 km2 on the Gulf coast, home to Port Tampa Bay, the state's largest port, and managed by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program for seagrass and water quality recovery.
Turnagain Arm
Turnagain Arm is a 48-mile hypertidal estuary of Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, named by Captain Cook in 1778, with a 9 m tidal range, a daily tidal bore, and tidal flats studied for earthquake-like sediment deformation.
Whitefish Bay
Whitefish Bay: the large southeastern bay of Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario, outlet to the St. Mary's River, notorious for shipwrecks including the Edmund Fitzgerald; also a Wisconsin village and other namesakes.
Wynniatt Bay
Wynniatt Bay, a bay on northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada (72°45′N 111°00′W, NTS 078B13). Named for Robert Wynniatt, who reached it in 1851 during McClure's Investigator expedition; official since 1947.