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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.
Boat trips can also be taken to visit the glaciers of the northwest arm of the Beagle Channel (located in the Alberto de Agostini National Park), and towards Cape Horn and Chilean Antarctica. There is a hiking circuit around the jagged pinnacles known as the Dientes de Navarino .
A cargo ship that was crushed by pack ice and sank 28 kilometres (15 nmi) off North Cape. George N Orr United States: 4 December 1917 A Great Lakes freighter sold by Canada to the United States for coastal service during World War I. After losing its steering gear off East Point she drifted until running aground off Savage Harbour. HMCS Assiniboine
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. At the shelf ...
The dandy ran aground on the Danger Rock, off Glandore, County Cork. She floated off and sank the next day. [3] Guido United Kingdom: The barque ran aground on the Sovereign Shoal, in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to La Spezia.
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
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A former pleasure cruiser/patrol craft that was sunk by ice off Detroit. Cyprus United States: 11 October 1907 The lake freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water about 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished.