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Bone Bay
Bone Bay, also Caleta Bone, is a rectangular bay on the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, nearly 10 nautical miles wide between Notter Point and Cape Roquemaurel; charted by FIDS in 1948 and named for midshipman Thomas M. Bone.
Börgen Bay
Börgen Bay, also Bahía Börgen, is a bay on the southeast coast of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for German astronomer Carl Börgen; site of the retreating William Glacier.
Botany Bay
Botany Bay (Kamay) is a 39.6 km2 ocean bay 12 km south of Sydney, site of Cook's 1770 landing and the 1788 First Fleet arrival, now home to Port Botany, Sydney Airport, and the Kurnell desalination plant.
Bourgeois Fjord
Bourgeois Fjord (Fiord Bourgeois) is a 50 km-long fjord in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula, dividing Loubet Coast from Fallières Coast. Charted by Charcot's 1908-10 expedition and named for Col. Joseph E. Bourgeois; deglaciated about 9,000 years BP.
Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay, Alaska: bay and watershed of the eastern Bering Sea, home of the world's largest wild sockeye salmon fishery, 25 federally recognized tribes, and the site of the blocked Pebble mine proposal.
Bristol Channel
Bristol Channel: Atlantic inlet between south Wales and Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset, historically the Severn Sea; with the Severn Estuary it is about 250 km long and has the world's second-highest tidal range, about 12 m mean spring.
Buli Bay
Buli Bay (Teluk Buli, Baai van Boeli) is a bay on the east coast of Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, between the Eastern and Southeastern Peninsulas; its port at Maba serves East Halmahera's nickel industry.
Buls Bay
Buls Bay (Bahía Buls) is a 4 km wide bay indenting the east side of Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 64°24′S 62°18′W; discovered and named by de Gerlache's 1897–99 Belgian expedition for Charles Buls, Burgomaster of Brussels.
Burrard Inlet
Burrard Inlet, called səlilwət by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, is a fjord forming the waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the site of the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port.
Cabinet Inlet
Cabinet Inlet is a frozen inlet, 36 miles long, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, one of the main glacier-fed inlets of the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣) is a retail district on northern Hong Kong Island in Wan Chai District, shaped by reclamation including the 1908 Tai Koo dockyard scheme, home to the 18-hectare Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter and its 2022 revitalised waterfront precinct, served by historic trams, and site of the last cleared 2014 Occupy camp.
Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay is a bay between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman on the Davis Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, charted in 1902 by Nordenskjöld's Swedish expedition and named for French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot; a second, smaller Charcot Bay lies in Victoria Land.
Charlotte Bay
Charlotte Bay is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Georges Lecointe's fiancée.
Chaunskaya Bay
Chaunskaya Bay (Chaun Bay, Чаунская губа), Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, Chukotka, Russia; 140 km long, shallow, near Pevek; hosts a warm-water 'Arctic oasis' ecosystem sustained by hydrothermal submarine groundwater discharge.
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay: largest estuary in the United States, a drowned river valley formed about 18,000 years ago; 64,000-square-mile watershed across six states and DC, over 17 million residents, summer dead zones, and a decades-long EPA-coordinated restoration effort.
Chuuk Lagoon
Chuuk Lagoon, formerly Truk Lagoon, is a large atoll lagoon in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. Japan's WWII Combined Fleet base was destroyed by Operation Hailstone in February 1944, leaving over 60 wrecks that made it a premier wreck-diving destination.
Chwaka Bay
Chwaka Bay is a shallow, intertidal bay on the east coast of Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, holding Zanzibar's largest mangrove forest and supporting a declining artisanal fishery.
Colac Bay
Colac Bay (Ōraka) is a small Southland, New Zealand coastal township 12 km west of Riverton on SH99, facing Foveaux Strait; former 1900 timber-railway town of 2,000, now a holiday and surfing resort with NZ's only surfer statue and Takutai o te Tītī marae.
Committee Bay
Committee Bay is a bay in Nunavut, Canada, at 68°16′N, 86°54′W, whose shores host the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt, a roughly 300 km long gold exploration corridor.
Corner Inlet
Corner Inlet is a tide-dominated embayment in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, a Ramsar wetland (site 261, listed 1982, 67,071 ha) famed for migratory shorebirds, southernmost Posidonia seagrass and white mangroves.
Cumberland Bay
Cumberland Bay is the largest fjord on South Georgia, splitting into East and West Bay and sheltering Grytviken, the whaling station founded there in 1904.
Cumberland Sound
Cumberland Sound (Kangiqtualuk) is a large embayment on southeast Baffin Island, Nunavut, opening to Davis Strait. About 250 km long, a historic whaling centre visited by William Penny in 1839 and Franz Boas in 1883–84, home to Greenland halibut and a threatened beluga population.
Dallmann Bay
Dallmann Bay: bay between Brabant and Anvers Islands, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; charted 1874 by Eduard Dallmann; Eastern Dallmann Bay is protected as ASPA 153 (520 km²).
Darbel Bay
Darbel Bay (Marin Darbel Bay) is a bay on the Loubet Coast, west Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at 66°30'S 65°55'W, bounded by Cape Bellue and the Darbel Islands and studied for its tidewater glaciers and seafloor moraines.
Darnley Bay
Darnley Bay, a roughly 45 km Arctic inlet off Amundsen Gulf, Northwest Territories, Canada, near Paulatuk; home of the Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam Marine Protected Area, Hornaday River Arctic char, and Cape Parry seabird colonies.
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf (Tagalook) is a gulf in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, bounded by Davao City and the Davao Region. Over 1,200 fish species, dugongs, whale sharks; annual June-August closed season since 2014 protects small pelagic fisheries.
Discovery Bay
Discovery Bay, also called Chile Bay, is a bay on northeast Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, site of Chile's Arturo Prat base (1947), Ecuador's Pedro Vicente Maldonado station, and the protected benthic habitat ASPA 144.
Disko Bay
Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup Tunua) is a bay in West Greenland at 69°N, 53°W, fed by icebergs from Jakobshavn glacier, with seasonal sea ice from January to June, rich Palaeo-Eskimo archaeology, and Danish colonial towns founded 1734–1773.
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, between View Point and Tabarin Peninsula, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Duse.
East Korea Bay
East Korea Bay is a bay on North Korea's eastern coast, opening onto the East Sea (Sea of Japan), distinct from Korea Bay on the Yellow Sea side; labeled on U.S. military and NOAA maps and an SST anomaly hot spot.