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The Bay of Biscay (/ ˈ b ɪ s k eɪ,-k i / BISS-kay, -kee) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Point Penmarc'h to the Spanish border, and along the northern coast of Spain, extending westward to Cape Ortegal .
The Celtic Sea [a] is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Ireland bounded to the north by Saint George's Channel; [1] other limits include the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay, as well as adjacent portions of Wales, Cornwall, parts of Devon and Brittany.
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A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. Not all geological features which could be considered a gulf have "Gulf" in the name, for example the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea .
Marginal seas as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization [1]. This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2]
Anarâškielâ; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...
Biscay (/ ˈ b ɪ s k eɪ, ˈ b ɪ s k i / BISK-ay, BISK-ee; [1] [2] Basque: Bizkaia; Spanish: Vizcaya [biθˈkaʝa]) or Bizkaia, is a province of the Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao.
The geology of the Bay of Biscay formed as the North Atlantic opened during the late Cretaceous. Near shore, thinned continental crust shows signs of complicated stress patterns, while basalt oceanic crust lies beneath deep water offshore. Geologists have debated whether the bay opened in a simple rotation "scissor pattern" or through left ...