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Geography. The Upper Newport Bay SMCA covers 1.28 square miles of estuary and wetlands area. The designated SMCA area includes the waters below the mean high tide line within Upper Newport Bay, northeastward of Pacific Coast Highway approximated by a line between the following points: 1. 33°37.02′N 117°54.24′W. 2. 33°37.02′N 117°54.32 ...
Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States. Located about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Newport Beach is known for its sandy beaches. The city's harbor once supported maritime industries. Today it is used mostly for recreation.
The Newport Pier is one of two municipal piers in the city of Newport Beach, California. The pier replaced the McFadden Wharf (1888-1939) and the site is registered as California Historical Landmark number 794. [1] It is 1,032 feet (314.6 m) long. The other ocean pier on the Balboa Peninsula is the Balboa Pier .
The Hilton Pier was first built in 1918 as part of the development of Hilton Village. The pier was a favorite spot for local recreational fishing for decades and has been rebuilt a number of times due to storm damage and weathering. Most recently, on September 18, 2003, the pier was destroyed by the high winds and surging tides of Hurricane Isabel.
The Claiborne Pell Bridge, commonly known as the Newport Bridge, is a suspension bridgeoperated by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authoritythat spans the East Passage of the Narragansett Bayin Rhode Island(northeastern United States). The bridge, part of RI 138, connects the city of Newporton Aquidneck Islandand the Town of Jamestownon ...
Slack tide or slack water is the short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream. It occurs before the direction of the tidal stream reverses. [ 1] Slack water can be estimated using a tidal atlas or the tidal diamond information on a nautical chart. [ 2]
Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.
Bristol Channel. The Bristol Channel ( Welsh: Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset ). It extends from the smaller Severn Estuary of the River Severn ...