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Fildes Strait
Fildes Strait: narrow Antarctic strait between Fildes Peninsula, King George Island and Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands; about 370-800 m wide, named for sealing captain Robert Fildes, known to sealers since about 1822.
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.
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis was the 1954–1955 confrontation across the Taiwan Strait in which the People's Republic of China bombarded Nationalist-held Jinmen and Mazu, ending in May 1955 after the Formosa Resolution and Dachen evacuation.
First voyage of James Cook
Cook's first voyage (1768–1771) in HM Bark Endeavour: Royal Society transit-of-Venus expedition to Tahiti, first circumnavigation of New Zealand, charting and claiming of eastern Australia, with Banks and Solander's 30,000-specimen natural history collection.
Firth
Firth: Scottish English term for a large estuary or long sea inlet, from Old Norse fjǫrthr (same root as fjord). Names include Firth of Forth, Clyde, Moray, Solway, Tay.
Firth of Clyde
The Firth of Clyde is a fjordic sea basin in western Scotland into which the River Clyde flows, separated from the Irish Sea by a ~50 m sill. Known for Clyde shipbuilding, collapsed herring and cod fisheries, the Clyde cod seasonal closure, and the Clyde Sea Sill MPA.
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary of the River Forth in eastern Scotland, about 100 km from Stirling to the North Sea, crossed by the Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge, and Queensferry Crossing.
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.
Fisheries of the North Sea
The fisheries of the North Sea are commercial fishing by about 7,000 vessels, landing around 1.5 million tonnes a year and managed jointly by the EU, UK, and Norway.
Fisheries of the Pacific Ocean
The fisheries of the Pacific Ocean produced 59 percent of the world's marine fish catch in 2016, led by the Northwest Pacific off East Asia and Russia.
Fjord
Fjord: a glacially carved, deep, steep-sided coastal inlet flooded by the sea, distinct from a ria (drowned river valley). Features include floors below sea level, a shallow rock sill at the mouth, and active climate research in Arctic fjords like Kongsfjorden.
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.
Flemish Cap
The Flemish Cap is an underwater plateau in the northwest Atlantic east of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, separated by the deep Flemish Pass and managed by NAFO as Division 3M.
Flores Sea
Flores Sea (Laut Flores), Indonesian marginal sea between southern Sulawesi and Flores, Komodo, and Sumbawa; IHO East Indian Archipelago area of about 102,816 km², Flores Basin to 5,140 m, key Indonesian Throughflow pathway.
Flotta oil terminal
The Flotta oil terminal is a crude oil terminal on the island of Flotta in Orkney, Scotland, receiving North Sea oil by pipeline since 1977.
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.
Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin: shallow Arctic inland sea in Nunavut, Canada, north of Hudson Bay between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula; ~207,500 km², first-year ice most of the year, named for Luke Foxe (1631).
Fram Strait
Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, is the deepest Arctic Ocean–Nordic Seas gateway. West Spitsbergen Current carries ~5 Sv of Atlantic Water north; East Greenland Current exports ice, nearly 90% of Arctic sea ice export.
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.
Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition: Sir John Franklin's 1845 voyage in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage; all 129 crew died after the ships were beset in ice, and the wrecks were found in 2014 and 2016 with Inuit knowledge.
French Frigate Shoals
French Frigate Shoals (Lalo) is an open atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, hosting about 96% of Hawaiian green sea turtle nesting and the largest historic Hawaiian monk seal subpopulation.
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.
Fridtjof Sound
Fridtjof Sound, also Frithiofs Sund, is a 6-mile-long north-south Antarctic sound separating Tabarin Peninsula from Andersson and Jonassen Islands, charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and named after the relief ship Fridtjof.
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.
Fury and Hecla Strait
Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow Arctic channel in Nunavut, Canada, between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula that connects Foxe Basin with the Gulf of Boothia.
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.
Gakkel Ridge
Gakkel Ridge: ultraslow-spreading Arctic mid-ocean ridge, northern continuation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, spreading 14 to under 8 mm/yr, with thin crust, abundant hydrothermal vents, and deep explosive volcanism.
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.