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The bay is roughly rectangular and opens to the southeast. The corners are (clockwise from the south) Cape Navarin (another source says the adjacent Cape Thaddeus), Anadyr Estuary, Kresta Bay and Cape Chukotsky on the Chukchi Peninsula. It is about 250 mi (217 nmi; 402 km) across.
It is located between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, the southernmost commune in Chile and in the world, belonging to Antártica Chilena Province in the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica.
Pylos (UK: / ˈ p aɪ l ɒ s /, US: /-l oʊ s /; Greek: Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. [2]
Navarino is the former name of Pylos, a Greek town on the Ionian Sea, where the 1827 battle took place . Old Navarino castle, medieval fortress at Pylos; New Navarino fortress, Ottoman fortress at Pylos
Sketch of the fortress and its town by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1688 View of the fortress from the sea, 1827. The fortress of New Navarino (Greek: Νέο Ναυαρίνο; Ottoman Turkish: Anavarin-i cedid) is an Ottoman fortification near Pylos, Greece.
The Navarin Canyon is the third-largest to cut through the Beringian margin. It is the second-largest in area. Though these canyons were not directly formed by rivers, it is postulated that when the sea level was low during the Ice Ages , rivers such as the Yukon and the Kuskokwim may have shaped in part the heads of these canyons.
Koryo Tours is the international co-ordinator for the bi-annual Pyongyang International Film Festival which has a local audience total of 120,000. In 2004 and 2006 they screened Bend It Like Beckham , Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie and Bride and Prejudice , each film seen by over 12,000 locals.
Battle of Navarin, National Historical Museum, Athens, Greece; The Russians under Van Heiden were the last to take up station, as was planned. Their position, on the right end of the Ottoman crescent, was the most exposed. The fighting in this sector was even more intense than elsewhere.