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Bays and bays are depressions formed by tidal erosion on the coastline of an ocean, lake, or sea. A bay is loosely defined as a body of water partially surrounded by land. Often, they have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, and are an excellent place to shelter ships from bad weather.
Being large and usually deep, the bays play the role of natural harbors, which are usually of great economic and strategic importance. Many of the world’s great cities are located on a natural harbor.
Our ranking includes the largest bays and famous coastline in the world.
10 Persian, 239 thousand km²
Length Persian Gulf is about 615 miles (990 km), and the width varies from a maximum of about 210 miles (340 km) to a minimum of 35 miles (55 km) in the Strait of Hormuz. It borders on the north, northeast and east with Iran; in the southeast and south by Oman and the United Arab Emirates; in the southwest and west of Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; and in the northwest by Kuwait and Iraq.
The term Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf, a name used by the Arabs) is sometimes used to refer not only to the Persian Gulf itself, but also to its outlets, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, which open into the Arabian Sea.
9. St. Lawrence, 249 thousand km²
Gulf of st lawrence located very close to the Bering Strait. The bay is open to the southeast; length 45 km, average width about 8 km. There are two small islands inside the bay. On the south shore of the bay at Cape Hargila is the village of Port Lawrence.
British Captain James Cook landed for several hours in St. Lawrence Bay and met with some of the local Chukchi in August 1778, but he did not linger in the bay. This bay was first explored by the Russian sailor Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1828.
8. Aden, 295 thousand km²
Gulf of Aden, a deep-water basin that forms a natural maritime link between the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. Named after the seaport of Aden in southern Yemen, the bay is located between the coasts of Arabia and the Horn of Africa.
Oceanographically and geologically, however, it extends to the eastern limits of the continental shelf beyond Huria Muria. Its total length, measured from east-northeast to west-southwest, is 920 miles (1480 km) and its average width, measured from north-northeast to south-southwest, is 300 miles (480 km). ).
7. Carpentaria, 328 km²
Gulf of Carpentaria, a shallow rectangular bay of the Arafura Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean), receding from the northern coast of Australia. The bay gained international prominence in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through the exploitation of manganese and shrimp resources.
The bay has an area of 120 square miles (000 square kilometers) and a maximum depth of 310 feet (000 meters). This is a rare modern example of an epicontinental sea (a shallow sea on top of a continent), a feature that is characteristic of earlier periods of the Earth’s geological history.
The Gulf of Carpentaria is surrounded on the west by Arnhem Land and on the east by the Cape York Peninsula. The bottom of the bay is the continental shelf, common to Australia and New Guinea.
6. Hudson, 819 thousand km²
Hudson Bay is a large body of salt water in northeastern Canada. English explorers and colonists named Hudson Bay after Sir Henry Hudson, who explored the bay on August 2, 1610 on his ship Discovery.
On his fourth voyage to North America, Hudson made his way through the west coast of Greenland into the bay, charting much of its east coast. During the winter, Discovery became trapped in the ice, and the crew survived on the shore at the southern end of James Bay.
5. Alaska, 1 thousand km²
Gulf of Alaska, a wide entrance to the North Pacific Ocean on the southern coast of Alaska, USA, bounded by the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island (west) and Cape Spencer (east).
From the shores of the bay in Alaska rise the high mountains of Chugach, Kenai, Fairweather and St. Elias. Ports along the bay include Anchorage, Seward.
Oil was discovered at the entrance to Cook and under Controller Bay. In 1741, the first Europeans to enter the bay were a Russian expedition led by Danish sailor Vitus Bering.
4. Big Australian, 1 thousand km²
Great Australian Bight is home to one of the most stunning marine environments in the world. It claims to have the largest number of southern right whales in the world – but they are not alone. Sea lions perch on the rocks, dolphins bob in and out of the water, and the fish population creates a spectrum of colors you couldn’t even dream of.
Outside the water, albatrosses soar, ospreys descend and dive for food, while penguins congregate at the foot of the Nullarbor cliffs as the ocean swims against the base of the Bay. Stretching for nearly 3 kilometers, it is one of the last truly unspoiled wonders of the world.
3. Guinean, 1 thousand km²
gulf of guinea – part of the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, its main tributaries include the Volta and Niger rivers. The continental shelf in the Gulf of Guinea narrows and widens almost uniformly to as much as 100 miles (160 km).
The diversity of marine flora and fauna of the Gulf of Guinea is limited compared to the western tropical Atlantic and, especially, to the biogeographic realm of the Indo-Pacific region. This relative biological poverty is a consequence of the lack of coral reef ecosystems due to the low salinity and high turbidity of the waters of the Guinea Current.
2. Mexican, 1 thousand km²
Gulf of Mexico is the geographical area and body of water that forms the so-called third coast of the contiguous United States.
The Gulf of Mexico is surrounded on the United States by the coastlines of western and northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. In Mexico, the bay borders the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatan.
The western end of the island of Cuba is a partial barrier to the eastern Gulf of Mexico, where it joins the Caribbean Sea. The Gulf of Mexico is roughly oval in shape and is about 950 miles (1500 km) long.
For over 500 years, the Gulf of Mexico has played a key role in the economic and political development of the United States, Cuba, and Mexico.
1. Bengal, 2 thousand km²
Bengal Bay, the largest bay in the world, is a sea that is part of the northeastern Indian Ocean. This sea has played a key role in the history of the peoples that surround it, including India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indonesia.
A unique feature of the bay is the extreme variability of its physical properties. The temperature in the coastal areas, however, is warm and noticeably uniform throughout the year, decreasing slightly towards the north. Surface density is much greater in spring than in autumn, when the river’s flow is at its highest.
In addition to changes in water level as a result of waves and tides, the mean sea level changes throughout the year. Because rainfall and river runoff exceed evaporation, the bay sees a net increase in water each year. The bay is also prone to occasional tsunamis.