 Dublin Bay in relation to Ireland. Dublin Bay is a delta shaped inlet of the Irish Sea off the east coast of Ireland. File links The following pages link to this file: Dublin Bay ...
File links The following pages link to this file: Dublin Bay ...
Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ...
Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England (Great Britain) A fjord (Lysefjorden) in Norway An inlet is a cave that roof collapsed due to erosion which has characteristics of one or more of the following: a bay a cove an estuary a firth a fjord a geo a sea loch a sea...
Relief map of the Irish Sea. ...
Rugged coastline of the West Coast of New Zealand The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. ...
The bay is approximately 7 km in width at its north-south base and 7 km in length to its apex at the center of the city of Dublin, stretching from Howth Head in the north to Dalkey Point (at Dún Laoghaire) in the south. Bull Island (North Bull Island) is situated in the northwest corner of the bay. In geography, a bay or gulf is a collection of water that is surrounded by land on three sides. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
Howth cliffs Howth Head (Ceann Binn Éadair in Irish) is a headland in north County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, near the towns of Sutton and Portmarnock. ...
Dún Laoghaire (Irish pronunciation ; anglicised spelling Dunleary, pronunciation ) is a suburban seaside town and a ferry port situated some 12 km south of Dublin city centre, and is the administrative centre of the county of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. ...
Bull Island or North Bull Island is an island located in Dublin Bay in Ireland, about 5km long and 800m wide, lying roughly parallel to the shore. ...
It is the expanse of the Irish Sea into which the three rivers, the River Liffey, the River Dodder and the River Tolka flow after their conjunction at Dublin (from the Irish "Dubh Linn" meaning "Black Lake"). Boardwalks of River Liffey and OConnell Bridge, in Dublin City. ...
The River Dodder (An Dothra in Irish)) rises on the northern slopes of Kippure in the Dublin Mountains. ...
The River Tolka (Irish: Tulcha) is a river which flows through Dublin, Ireland. ...
The metropolitan area of the city of Dublin almost completely surrounds three sides of the bay (the north, west, and south), while the Irish Sea lies to the east. Also called Baile Átha Cliath (meaning "Ford of the wattles"), Dublin was founded by the Danes at the point where they were able to ford the River Liffey with the first wattle bridge up from the estuary. As technology moved forward in Ireland it became possible to bridge the rivers further and further down to the sea, and to reclaim the swampy foreshore. The city spread from its birthplace around Guinnesses and James's Gate, to the sea and out along the coastline north-east towards Howth and south-east towards Dalkey. A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ...
James Joyce set practically all the action of his novel Ulysses around the bay from the Forty Foot in which Buck Mulligan washed in the morning of Bloomsday to Howth, where Mr Bloom made love to his Molly under the rhododendrons. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...
A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ...
Ulysses is a 1922 novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from 1918 to 1920, and published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in 1922, Paris. ...
Subgenera Azaleastrum Candidastrum Hymenanthes Mumeazalea Pentanthera (Azaleas) Rhododendron Therorhodion Tsutsusi (Azaleas) Vireya Source: RBG, Edinburgh Rhododendron (from the Greek: rhodos, rose, and dendron, tree) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. ...
Dublin Bay, being rather shallow and having many sandbanks and rocky outcrops, was notorious for shipwrecks; especially when the wind was from the east. Up until modern times many ships and their passengers were lost along the treacherous coastlines out from Howth and Dun Laoghaire, not a kilometer from shore.
501 soldiers and seaman, out of 680, were killed when the steamship RMS Leinster was torpedoed, with two shots, by the German U-Boat U-123 on 10 October 1918. She lies in 33 meters (108 ft) of water at latitude 53° 18' 88" N (53.324); longitude 5° 47' 71" W. (-6.803) Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ...
The RMS Leinster (RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship) served as the Dublin-Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 10 October 1918, a month before the end of World War I. She was sunk by the submarine UB-123 just outside Dublin Bay at...
U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...
Unterseeboot 123 (U-123) has been the designation of two submarines of the German Navy. ...
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus, the environmentalist and former Lord Mayor of Dublin, adopted Dublin Bay as one of his middle names to highlight environmental issues associated with the bay. Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus (born 1927) is an Irish barrister, politician and environmentalist. ...
The Mansion House The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the symbolic head of the city government in the capital of Ireland. ...
In September 2006 a video emerged of a plan to reclaim sections of the bay for business and residential purposes. The video claimed over 42,000 apartments would be built on man-made islands, which would also house the world's first giraffe-only zoo. Concerned residents were relieved to find out the video was a highly elaborate publicity stunt for a new Irish property website, funda.ie The promotional website is www.dublincoastaldevelopment.com while the video is on Youtube
 Satellite photo of County Dublin - courtesy of NASA. Satellite photo of County Dublin - Courtesy NASA File links The following pages link to this file: Dublin Bay ...
Satellite photo of County Dublin - Courtesy NASA File links The following pages link to this file: Dublin Bay ...
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Geographical coordinates - Latitude: 53° 20' 4" N (53.33444)
- Longitude: 6° 6' 38" W (-6.110556)
See also
Dublin Port is Irelands biggest sea port. ...
External links Coordinates: 53°20′N 6°07′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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