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The Bay is approximately 8 mi (13 km) long and 2.7 mi (4.3 km) wide, with a mouth opening of about 4.6 mi (7.4 km) wide and a maximum depth of 40 ft (12 m) in the dredged channel. It has one of the two barrier reefs in the archipelago, the other being the 27 mi (43 km) barrier reef of Molokaʻi island , and also has extensive development of ...
Fortescue Bay or Baje Dolomien is a bay in southeast Tasmania, Australia. It is located 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Port Arthur, Tasmania , and makes up part of Tasman National Park . Within the bay are two smaller nested bays, Canoe Bay and Bivouac Bay.
Kahaluʻu Fishpond, historically known as Kahouna Fishpond, on Kāneʻohe Bay in windward Oʻahu, is one of only four surviving ancient Hawaiian fishponds on Oʻahu that were still in use well into the 20th century. In the previous century there were at least 100 such fishponds around the island.
Geographic oblique, view southwesterly toward Kāneʻohe from MCB Hawaii as captured from NASA World Wind. Kaneohe or Kāneʻohe (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kaːneˈʔohe]) is a census-designated place (CDP) included in the City and County of Honolulu and in Hawaiʻi state District of Koʻolaupoko on the island of Oʻahu.
The lake is also very deep, its floor being below sea level (−110 metres), with a maximum depth of 420 metres (1,380 ft). It is at an altitude of 310 metres (1,020 ft), towards the southern end of the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. The general topography is a reversed "N" shape or "dog leg".
On 15 January 1952, the U.S. Marine Corps recommissioned the idle airfield Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, making it an ideal training site for a combined air/ground team. [8] Station Operations and Headquarters Squadron supported flight operations until 30 June 1972, when Station Operations and Maintenance Squadron (SOMS) was ...
Heʻeia Fishpond is a "kuapā-style" fishpond, or walled coastal pond (Hawaiian: loko iʻa kuapā), enclosing an area of 88 acres (36 ha) [1] [2] in southern Kāneʻohe Bay [2] on the coast of Oahu at Heʻeia, Hawaii. It is the second-largest of at least 20 fishponds which once lay along the shore of Kāneʻohe Bay. [3]
Coconut Isle in Kaneohe Bay Coconut Island , or Moku o Loʻe , is a 28- acre (113,000 m²) island in Kāneʻohe Bay off the island of Oʻahu in the state of Hawaiʻi , United States. It is a marine research facility of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) of the University of Hawaiʻi .