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Morecambe Bay
« on: August 17, 2013, 12:05:26 PM »
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Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of 310 km2 (120 sq mi). In 1974 the second largest gas field in the UK was discovered 25 miles west of Blackpool, with original reserves of over 7tcf. At its peak 15% of Britain's gas supply came from the bay but production is now in decline and the main field was mothballed in 2011.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2013, 12:06:29 PM »


A panorama of most of Morecambe Bay looking from East (bottom of photo) to West (top of photo). Barrow-in-Furness and Walney Island can be seen in the upper part of the photo and Lancaster and Morecambe are visible in the lower left-hand corner of the photo.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2013, 12:07:45 PM »
pagka BADlongon jud nimo. na hala, mo lakaw na lang ko :'(

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2013, 12:13:29 PM »
and thank you mr. hubak. tungod nimo na sakit ug na sikat ko. na sakit sa high blood. na sikat kay na ilhan na man ko ninjo nga i am not a mini milyoner. medium milyoner lang hinoon. bisan tood kong milyoner ko, i am the poorest member of the GROUP. so i belong to the bottom tier. i am just a follower. not a leader. kontribyot lang ko sa ahong dolyar to help preserve the freedom of the USA.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2013, 12:15:25 PM »
The rivers Leven, Kent, Keer, Lune and Wyre drain into the Bay, with their various estuaries making a number of peninsulas within the bay. Much of the land around the bay is reclaimed, forming salt marshes used in agriculture. Morecambe Bay is also an important wildlife site, with abundant bird life and varied marine habitats, and there is a bird observatory at Walney Island. The bay has rich cockle beds, which have been fished by locals for generations.

There are seven main islands in the bay; Walney, Barrow, Sheep, Piel, Chapel, Foulney and Roa. Sheep, Piel, Chapel and Foulney Islands are tidal and can be walked to at low tide with appropriate care. Local guidance should be sought if walking to Chapel or Piel islands as fast tides and quicksand can be extremely dangerous. Roa Island is linked to the mainland by a causeway and is only rarely cut off.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2013, 12:15:56 PM »
and so my little boy botoy, you better start behaving mentras tanto nga wa pa ko mahinajak. you behave by not showing your avatar because it makes my blood boil.

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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2013, 12:17:32 PM »
There have been royally appointed local guides (holding the post of Queen's Guide to the Sands) for crossing the bay for centuries. This difficulty of crossing the bay added to the isolation of the land to its north which, due to the presence of the mountains of the Lake District, could only be reached by crossing these sands or by ferry, until the Furness Railway was built in 1857. This skirts the edge of the bay, crossing the various estuaries. The London-Glasgow railway also briefly runs alongside the bay - the only place where the West Coast Main Line actually runs alongside the coast.

The bay is notorious for its quicksand and fast moving tides (it is said that the tide can come in "as fast as a horse can run"). On the night of 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese immigrant cockle pickers drowned after being cut off by the tides. This tragedy led some commentators to suggest that the cockle beds should be closed until improved safety measures could be introduced.

Morecambe Bay was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders (BBC) as one of the wonders of the North.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2013, 12:18:14 PM »
bahala na ka kong di ka mag pa badlong. long live freedom of speech ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2013, 12:54:25 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2013, 03:40:48 PM »
Some 319,100 people live along the coastline of Morecambe Bay. The largest town by far on the bay is Barrow-in-Furness located to the north-west of it, whilst the town which adopted its name from the bay (Morecambe was previously called Poulton-le-Sands) has a population of around half of Barrow's. Morecambe relied on the bay for many years, as a popular seaside holiday destination, whilst Barrow still relies on the seas for a large percentage of its economy - Ship and Submarine building.

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Re: Morecambe Bay
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2013, 08:52:44 PM »
Discussions as to whether to build a road bridge over the bay have been ongoing for decades, particularly in the more isolated north of the bay. The most recent suggestion was of a "green bridge", flanked by wind turbines and using tidal power to mitigate the environmental damage of its construction. The bridge would be twelve miles (19 km) long making it the longest bridge in Europe. It would stretch from Heysham to Barrow-in-Furness, at the bay's mouth. Feasibility studies are ongoing, though over two years since this version of the bridge was proposed, little progress has been made. In the 2005 UK General Election, Timothy Bell polled just 1.1% of the votes in the Barrow and Furness constituency for the Build Duddon and Morecambe Bay Bridges Party.

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