Admiralty Bay (other)

	Admiralty Bay (other) Admiralty Bay is the name of several places: Admiralty Bay, Bequia, in Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Admiralty Bay (New Zealand), in the Marlborough Sounds, South Island, New Zealand Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica Admiralty Bay (Washington), USA Admiralty Bay is a former name of Ganges Harbour, British Columbia, Canada Admiralty Bay is a former name of Yakutat Bay Yakutat Bay (Tlingit language, Lingít: ''Yaakwdáat G̱eeyí'') is a 29-km-wide (18 mi) bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit people, Tlingit name report ... , Alaska, USA {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Admiralty Bay, Bequia Admiralty most often refers to: Admiralty, Hong Kong Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department in command of the Royal Navy from 1707 to 1964 The rank of admiral Admiralty law Admiralty can also refer to: Buildings Admiralty, Trafalgar Square, a pub in London Admiralty, Saint Petersburg, Russia * Admiralteyskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro), a metro station in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the name means "Admiralty" Admiralty Arch in London, England Admiralty House, London Admiralty House, Sydney Dutch Admiralty, a group of follies at Tsarskoye Selo, Russia Former Admiralty House, Singapore Law Admiralty court * Admiralty law, also called Maritime Law * Amirauté (New France) Naval organizations Admiralty (navy), a governmental and/or naval body responsible for the administration of a navy Germany German Imperial Admiralty, ''Kaiserliche Admiralität'' * German Imperial Admiralty Staff, ''Admiralstab'' Netherlands Admiralty of Amsterdam Admiralty of Friesla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Admiralty Bay (New Zealand) Admiralty Bay is a large indentation in the northern coast of New Zealand's South Island. It lies close to the northernmost mainland point of the Marlborough Sounds, immediately to the south of D'Urville Island. The bay, one of the larger of numerous bays in the crenellated coast of the sounds, is wide at its mouth and extends south. The peninsula into which it cuts is almost bisected by the bay, with a narrow isthmus only some wide lying between the bay's southernmost extent and Hallam Cove to the south. To the northeast, the bay is open to the waters of Cook Strait, but to the west a narrow and treacherous stretch of water French Pass is the only maritime access. The Bay was named in March 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ... durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for , in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sailor, and is now established in international usage. The Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station is situated on the bay, as is the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base. It has been designated an Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA 1). Description The bay has three fjords: Martel, Mackellar, and Ezcurra. A mariner's guide to the region pronounced the bay to have the best anchorage of any in the South Shetlands, "being well-sheltered all around and having moderate depths over a bottom of good, stiff clay. Ice from the glaciers is frequently troublesome." Chilean scientists have claimed that Amerinds visited the area, due to stone artifacts recovered from bottom-sampling operations in the bay. how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Admiralty Bay (Washington) Admiralty Inlet is a strait in the U.S. state of Washington connecting the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound. It lies between Whidbey Island and the northeastern part of the Olympic Peninsula. Boundaries It is generally considered to be the northern part of Puget Sound's Main Basin. Its northern boundary is defined as a line running between Point Wilson and Point Partridge, and it extends south to the southern end of Whidbey Island and Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula, where it joins the Central Basin of Puget Sound's Main Basin. Admiralty Inlet's area is , with a volume of . Its shoreline is in length. Its mean depth is .Features Of Puget Sound Region: Oceanography And Physical Processes Chapter 3 of th [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ganges Harbour Ganges, British Columbia is an unincorporated community on Salt Spring Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. History Ganges Harbour, from which Ganges takes its name, was originally called Admiralty Bay but was renamed by George Henry Richards, Captain Richards in 1859 after , and indirectly after the Ganges river in South Asia. The ship was at the Pacific Station from 1857 to 1860 under the command of Captain John Fulford as flagship of Robert Lambert Baynes, Rear Admiral Robert L. Baynes. ''Ganges'' was the last sailing line-of-battle ship in foreign service. The first house on Salt Spring Island was built here in 1859 by the first group of 20 settlers that arrived on the island that summer. On 4 July 1860 the harbour was the scene of the killing of eight Heiltsuk, Bella Bella (Heiltsuk) people and the capture of three women and two boys for slaves by the Cowichan Tribes, Cowichans. A few days later, two Cowichans were beheaded, by a band from Kwakwaka'wakw, Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]