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Mother Ivy's Bay

It was selected as location for the cover photos of Lucio Battisti's album E già.


1907 Kingston earthquake

After the earthquake tsunami were observed along much of the north coast of Jamaica at Hope Bay, Port Antonio, Orange Bay, Sheerness Bay, Saint Ann's Bay, Buff Bay, Port Maria and Annotto Bay; there were also some reports of waves along the south coast.

Bare Island, New Zealand

Bare Island, also known as Motu-O-Kura (or "the Island of Kura" in Māori), is a small island located in the Pacific Ocean in the southern Hawke's Bay on the eastern North Island of New Zealand.

Battle of the Bay

Battle of Hudson's Bay, a historical naval battle in Hudson's Bay in Canada

Burial of Drowned Persons Acts 1808 and 1886

The passage of the 1808 act was one of the consequences of the wreck of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Anson in Mount's Bay in 1807.

Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Federal Bridge

The Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Bridge is a railway plate girder bridge over the Rideau River from the Merivale area to the Mooney's Bay neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Charles Fountaine

He married in 1918, Louisa Constance Catherine, daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand.

Clifton Beach, Karachi

Other beaches close to the city include Sandspit, Hawke's Bay, and Paradise Point (a sandstone rock promontory with a natural arch), sonehra point, french beach, cape Mount, Manora Beach, but Clifton Beach is the most popular picnic destination in Karachi.

Fabian's Bay

Fabian's Bay was a natural tidal basin near the present day area of Port Tennant in Swansea, Wales.

False Bay

Despite this, swimming, surfing, yachting, scuba diving and so on are popular pastimes around the bay, at centres such as Muizenberg, Kalk Bay, Smitswinkel Bay, Strand and Gordon's Bay.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1966

George Ben Edmonson - Canada prisoner arrested June 28, 1967 in Campbell's Bay, Quebec, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after a Canadian citizen recognized him from an American magazine article.

Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

Fort Vancouver High School

The Vancouver School District decided to change the name of the school in 1956 when a second high school, Hudson's Bay was built just east of the main downtown area, near Clark College.

G. A. Beazeley

On 4 November 1938, his daughter Rozel, her husband, Captain William Swan, also of the Royal Engineers, and their baby daughter were killed in the crash of the airliner St Catherine's Bay at Jersey Airport.

Gordon's Bay

The older part of Gordon's Bay is host to the South African Navy's Naval College, an officer training center located adjacent to the old harbour and yacht marina.

Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Hammonds Plains was established as a settlement area for United Empire Loyalists in 1786 along a road running from Birch Cove on Bedford Basin to St. Margaret's Bay.

Haviside's dolphin

Sightings are likely from Lambert's Bay either from the shore or from boat trips run from the harbour.

History of Kingsway College

Lawrence Huntley (1900-1920) grew up on a farm in Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia located next to Cape Split on the Bay of Fundy.

John Keast Lord

Lordis said to have made a whaling voyage and been shipwrecked, and to have been for some years a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson's Bay fur countries.

Julian Moreton

These hardships are recorded in Moreton's book and in Bishop Edward Feild's reports to the S.P.G. For example, one account records Moreton visiting Deadman's Bay some 30 miles away from his home, walking for 16 miles along the shore, living on bread and butter with salted fish alone, and expecting only two good meals in nine days.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Leo Walmsley

He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel.

Mount's Bay

Its half-moon shape is similar to that of Donegal Bay in Ireland and Cardigan Bay in Wales, although, unlike the aforementioned bays, Mount's Bay is relatively sheltered from the prevailing Atlantic westerlies.

Park Farm, Kent

Park Farm and its surrounding areas has easy access to the coast being less than 10 miles or 20 mins to the beaches and seaside towns of Dymchurch, St Mary's Bay, Hythe, Greatstone or Camber Sands.

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

Pliensbachian

The Wine Haven profile near Robin Hood's Bay (Yorkshire, England) has been appointed as global reference profile for the base (GSSP).

Prince's Bay, Staten Island

One block west of the latter is the South Campus of Staten Island University Hospital, formerly known as Richmond Memorial Hospital, which has the distinction of being the southernmost acute-care facility in both New York City and New York State.

Prionium serratum

Several rivers in the Western Cape have have been named Palmiet River for this species growing along their courses - two of the larger ones are the Palmiet River mouthing between Betty's Bay and Kleinmond, and one having its source just west of Formosa Peak and eventually joining the Keurbooms River.

Robert J. Pope

He began his teaching at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay, and then became a master at the first school in Levin.

Robin Hood's Bay

The Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales, on the hill side at Raw, above the village, replaced an ancient church which had Saxon origins and was demolished in about 1821 and was a dependent chapel of Whitby Abbey.

Robin Lee Graham

Graham spent nine months in South Africa, calling on ports along the southern edge of the continent including East London, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Stilbaai, Struisbaai, Gordon's Bay and finally Cape Town.

Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica

Established by Juan de Esquivel, the first Spanish Governor of Jamaica, St Ann's Bay became the third capital established by Spain in the Americas.

Sedimentary budget

Incorporating a sediment budget into a coastal plan has been recognised as highly important in the Hawke's Bay of New Zealand for finding information relating to hazard zones, beach property protection, and coastal erosion as well as assess the successfulness of current management strategies.

Southall rail crash

Power car 43173 was written off and scrapped at Pig's Bay, having sustained heavy damage during the accident.

St Mary's Bay, Kent

Situated on Romney Marsh, St Mary's Bay has a long sandy beach which stretches north to Dymchurch and south to Littlestone-on-Sea.

Stephenville International Airport

In 1941 the United States obtained rights to construct a United States Army Air Forces base in the St. George's Bay area of Newfoundland.

Strawberry Spit

Strawberry Spit (also Sanctuary Island) is a small artificial island in the San Francisco Bay's Richardson's Bay embayment of Strawberry Lagoon.

Table Bay

The best of them- Saldanha Bay- lacked fresh water and the only realistic alternatives- Simon's Bay and Houtbaai- were rightly inaccessible at the time and only marginally less exposed to the weather, which is notoriously bad often enough in the Cape Peninisula (see article on S.S. Maori and Seapoint).

Taradale, Hawke's Bay

Taradale High School retains a link with the early days of Taradale, its emblem incorporating the Tara Brooch.

The White Lady

The "White Lady" archaeological site is located close to the road from Khorixas to Hentie's Bay, in the area of Uis, on the Brandberg massif.

USS LST-325

In May and June 2005, she sailed up the east coast under her own power for a 60-day tour of several ports, visiting Alexandria, Virginia, and Buzzard's Bay, Boston, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

William Hobson

During the next three months, Hobson and his officers thoroughly surveyed Port Phillip, the northern portion of which, by direction of Governor Sir Richard Bourke, was named Hobson's Bay, after him.

Women's Bay

Womens Bay, Alaska, a census-designated place in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, in the United States

Women's Bay, Barbados, also known as Silver Sands, in the south of the island of Barbados


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