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The Swan Bay is a shallow, 30-square-kilometre (12 sq mi) marine embayment at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. The township of Queenscliff lies at its southern end, and St Leonards at its northern. It is partly separated from Port Phillip by Swan Island, Duck Island and Edwards Point.
Swan Bay area wetlands and barrier islands. Portarlington sewage treatment works; Swan Bay - 30 km 2 marine embayment with intertidal flats fringed by saltmarsh; Edwards Point - 4 km sandspit with coastal woodland, heathland and saltmarsh; Duck Island - small sand and saltmarsh island; Swan Island - 140 ha sand island, with coastal scrub and ...
The Bay Islands (Spanish: Islas de la Bahía; pronounced [ˈislas de la βaˈi.a]) is a group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Collectively, the islands form one of the 18 departments of Honduras. The departmental capital is Coxen Hole, on the island of Roatán.
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The islands are actually the worn-down tops of ancient mountains. This region, the Frontenac Axis, connects the Canadian Shield from Algonquin Park in Ontario to the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The park consists of 21 islands plus many smaller islets, 2 mainland properties and a visitor centre at Mallorytown, Ontario on the mainland
Boldt Castle is a major landmark and tourist attraction in the Thousand Islands region of the U.S. state of New York.Open to guests seasonally between mid-May and mid-October, it is located on Heart Island in the Saint Lawrence River.
Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay) Rincon Island (off Ventura County Coast) [18] THUMS Islands (also called Astronaut Islands) - four artificial island oil platforms (off Long Beach Harbor) Coast Guard Island (Oakland Estuary, San Francisco Bay area) Long Beach Port
The Swan Islands (Spanish: Islas Santanilla or Islas del Cisne, named Islas de las Pozas by Christopher Columbus in 1502) is a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately 153 km (95 mi) northeast of the eastern coast of Honduras, [1] with a combined land area of 3.1 km 2 (1.2 sq mi).