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Erebus and Terror Gulf
Erebus and Terror Gulf is a gulf of the Weddell Sea at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, named after Ross's ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
Exasperation Inlet
Exasperation Inlet is a large ice-filled inlet, 16 miles wide, on the Oscar II Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, between Foyn Point and Cape Disappointment; named by FIDS in 1947-1949 after disturbed shelf ice hampered sledging.
Eyre Peninsula
Eyre Peninsula, South Australia's largest peninsula (about 70,000 km² west of Adelaide), is a major agriculture and seafood region centred on Port Lincoln, producing all of Australia's farmed southern bluefin tuna and most of the state's oysters, mussels, and abalone.
False Bay
False Bay: name of two bays, the 4-mi bay between Barnard Point and Miers Bluff on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (also Falsa, bahía), and the 41-km-wide Valsbaai at South Africa's Cape Peninsula; both named for confusion with neighboring bays.
First Bay
First Bay is a bay in Monroe County, Florida, within Everglades National Park near the Lostmans River and Gulf of Mexico, at about 25.5486 N, 81.1973 W; distinct from other places named First Bay.
Firth of Thames
The Firth of Thames (Tikapa Moana) is a large shallow tidal embayment on New Zealand's North Island, about 52 km southeast of Auckland, with tidal flats hosting tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds.
Flandres Bay
Flandres Bay (Baie des Flandres), a glacial bay between Cape Renard and Cape Willems on the Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula; charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898, 16 km deep, poorly charted, marine-only tourist site.
Foster, Port
Port Foster is the sea-flooded volcanic caldera forming the landlocked harbor of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, entered through Neptune's Bellows; about 6 × 10 km, up to 190 m deep, named for Capt. Henry Foster (1829).
Foul Bay (Red Sea)
Foul Bay (Acathartos Kolpos, Sinus Immundus) is a reef-fringed bay on Egypt's western Red Sea coast, running over 90 km from Berenice to the Sudanese border.
Franklin Bay
Franklin Bay, a V-shaped bay of the southeastern Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories between Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry; also Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island, site of the Greely expedition.
Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Freshwater is a village and parish on the west coast of the Isle of Wight, England, known for Freshwater Bay's shingle beach beneath chalk cliffs, the Stag and Mermaid rock stacks, Tennyson's Farringford, Julia Margaret Cameron's Dimbola, and walks to Tennyson Down and the Needles.
Frobisher Bay
Frobisher Bay is a large, fjord-like inlet on the southeast coast of Baffin Island, Canada. Its funnel shape concentrates some of the largest tides in the country.
G-Land
G-Land (Plengkung, Grajagan Bay) is a world-class left-hand reef point break at Java's southeastern tip in Alas Purwo National Park, Indonesia. Sections Kongs, Money Trees, Launching Pads, Speedies; season April–October; discovered 1972; first surf camp 1974.
Gardner Inlet
Gardner Inlet, also called Bahía Gardner or Ensenada Gardner, is an ice-filled inlet between Cape Adams and Cape Schlossbach on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, discovered by RARE in 1947 and named for physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner.
Gdańsk Bay
Gdańsk Bay (Zatoka Gdańska), a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea in the Gdańsk Basin, receives the Vistula, hosts the ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia, includes shallow Puck Bay behind the Hel Peninsula, and averages 70 m deep.
Geographe Bay
Geographe Bay is a north-facing bay in southwest Western Australia, named by Baudin's 1801 expedition. It has 50 km of arcuate sandy beach, temperate WA's most extensive seagrass meadows, and lies in the Ngari Capes Marine Park.
Gibson Bay
Gibson Bay, Antarctica: a bay at 63°19'S 55°52'W near Joinville Island on the Antarctic Peninsula's Weddell Sea side, a UK-approved name listed in the Australian and U.S. Antarctic gazetteers; distinct from Gibson Bay, Nunavut.
Glyfada (Γλυφάδα)
Glyfada (Γλυφάδα) is a seaside municipality of the Athenian Riviera on the Saronic Gulf, south of Athens, on the site of the ancient deme of Aixone; renamed in the early 20th century for brackish wells, with four marinas and free beaches.
Golfe du Morbihan (Kerguelen)
The Golfe du Morbihan is a large, almost fully enclosed natural harbor on the east side of the Kerguelen Islands, sheltering the French research station Port-aux-Français.
Golfo di Trieste - Italy
Golfo di Trieste (Gulf of Trieste), a shallow ~500 km2 semi-enclosed bay at the northeastern Adriatic between Italy and Slovenia; LTER site C1 since 1986, Miramare MPA, OGS marine observatory, Isonzo inflow and bora winds.
Golfo di Venezia - Italy
Golfo di Venezia (Gulf of Venice), inlet of the northwestern Adriatic from the Po Delta to Capo Promontore and an LTER-Italy site (IT12-001-M) run by CNR-ISMAR, with observations since the late 19th century and the Acqua Alta platform 15 km offshore Venice.
Golfo San Jorge
Golfo San Jorge is a large semi-open gulf of the Argentine Sea on Patagonia's central coast, spanning Chubut and Santa Cruz provinces and covering about 40,000 km².
Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large open bay on Australia's southern coast, spanning Western Australia and South Australia. Known for its cool-water carbonate ramp, southern right whale calving at Head of Bight, high endemism, and the 45,822 km² Great Australian Bight Marine Park.
Guanabara Bay
Guanabara Bay (Baía de Guanabara), the 412 km² Atlantic bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, entered by the Portuguese on January 1, 1502; site of France Antarctique and the 1565 founding of Rio, now a hypereutrophic estuary under long-running cleanup programs.
Guantánamo Bay
Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo), also called Gitmo, is a sheltered hourglass-shaped Caribbean bay in southeastern Cuba, site of a 45-square-mile U.S. naval base leased since 1903 for $4,085 a year and of post-2002 detention facilities.
Guba Gusinaya
Guba Gusinaya (Губа Гусиная, "Goose Bay") is a Siberian arctic bay listed at 71°45′N 149°30′E in the Pub. 183 Northern Coast of Russia Pilot gazetteer; guba is the Pomor term for a river-mouth bay.
Gulf of Aden (خليج عدن)
Gulf of Aden (خليج عدن), sea basin between Yemen and Somalia linking the Red Sea at Bab el-Mandeb to the Arabian Sea; young ocean basin with the Sheba Ridge, a key Asia-Europe shipping route, and renewed piracy since 2023.
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska is the North Pacific bight along Alaska's southern coast, bounded roughly from Kodiak Island to Dall Island, driven by glacial freshwater feeding the Alaska Coastal Current, and known for major fisheries and 2014–2019 marine heatwaves.
Gulf of Alexandretta
The Gulf of Alexandretta, also known as the Gulf of İskenderun, is a shallow, semi-enclosed bay at the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean on the southeastern coast of Turkey.
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив)
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив), a northwestern Bering Sea gulf off Chukotka at the Anadyr River mouth; source of the Anadyr Current, dense shelf water, polynyas, and a highly productive diatom plume feeding the western Arctic.