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A continuous marine broadcast, or CMB, is a marine weather broadcasting service [1] operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.CMBs are programmed from the various Marine Communications and Traffic Services centres on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts of Canada, as well as on the coasts of the Great Lakes.
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a number of major bases and operating stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes and major navigable inland waterways such as Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and Great Slave Lake/Mackenzie River.
Whakatane Bridge The Whakatāne River or Ōhinemataroa [ 1 ] is a major river of the Bay of Plenty region in the North Island of New Zealand . It flows north from near the small town of Ruatāhuna through Te Urewera , reaching the sea through the town of Whakatāne .
The canoe started to drift back out to sea. Wairaka, the daughter of captain-navigator Toroa, seized the paddle, and brought the waka back to shore. She forbade the tapu forbidding women to handle canoes, shouting "Kia Whakatane au i ahau", translating as "I will act the part of a man"; this phrase is the origin of Whakatāne's name. [4] [5]
In 2009, the Minister of Defence President Mahinda Rajapaksa presented a cabinet paper suggesting the reestablishment of the Coast Guard, leading to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard Coast Guard Act, No. 41 of 2009 being enacted by parliament on 9 July 2009. [4] The SLCG was thus reestablished in its current form seven years after its initial disbanding.
The volcano erupted on 9 December 2019 at 2:11 pm local time (01:11 UTC). [3] The ash plume rose 3.7 kilometres (12,000 ft) into the air. [26]It was initially believed that there were about 100 tourists on or near the island when the eruption took place; later, this figure was revised to 47 people who were on the island at the time. [27]
There is one public state intermediate school for Year 7 to 8 students: Whakatane Intermediate, [49] with a roll of 585. [50] Whakatāne also has two state-integrated Christian primary schools for Year 1 to 8 students: St Joseph's Catholic School, [51] with a roll of 261, [52] and Whakatane Seventh-day Adventist School, [53] with a roll of 47. [54]
Whakatāne Seamount (also known as Whakatāne Volcano) is a submarine stratovolcano situated some 130 kilometres (81 mi) off the Bay of Plenty coastline of New Zealand. [1] [2] It is found within the Kermadec Arc, and is one of the northernmost volcanoes of the Taupō Volcanic Zone and is usually recognised as the most southern of the South Kermadec Ridge Seamounts. [3]