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Definition: San Francisco Bay from Collins English Dictionary

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1 an inlet of the Pacific in W California, linked with the open sea by the Golden Gate strait. Length: about 80 km (50 miles). Greatest width: 19 km (12 miles)


San Francisco Bay

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate , a strait between two peninsulas. The bay is as deep as 100 ft (30 m) in spots, with a channel 50 ft (15 m) deep maintained through the sandbar off the Golden Gate. San Francisco is on the southern peninsula; on the northern peninsula are the residential suburbs of Marin co., while on the eastern shore of the crescent-shaped bay are such industrial cities as Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, and Richmond. The Santa Clara Valley, part of a great depression paralleling the coast, is the landward extension of the bay. Angel Island , Alcatraz , and Yerba Buena Island with neighboring Treasure Island (site of an international exposition, 1939–40) are in the bay. With San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, the natural harbor of San Francisco Bay is one of the best in the world. On those secondary bays and on Carquinez Strait, which connects them, are the cities of Vallejo, Benicia, Martinez, and Pittsburg. …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Crescent-shaped bay in western California. Running parallel to the Pacific coast and linked to the ocean by a narrow strait known as the Golden Gate, it measures 100 km/60 mi from north to south and is 5–20 km/3–12 mi wide. With depths of up to 30 m/100 ft, it is an excellent natural harbour and an…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate , a strait between two peninsulas. The bay is as deep as 100 ft (30 m) in spots, with a channel 50 ft (15 m) deep maintained through the sandbar off the Golden Gate. San Francisco is on the southern…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Large, nearly landlocked bay indenting west-central California, U.S. A drowned river valley paralleling the coastline, it is connected with the Pacific Ocean by the Golden Gate Strait, which is spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge . The bay is one of the world’s finest natural harbours. Treasure, Yerba…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
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From Collins English Dictionary
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(săn frănsĭs'kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Gate; inc. 1850. The city is the heart of the San Francisco Bay region and with…
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View of San Francisco Bay from Illustrazione Italiana magazine, 10th August 1879
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Chief Pacific port in California, USA, on the tip of a peninsula in San Francisco Bay; population (2000) 776,700. The entrance channel from the Pacific to San Francisco Bay was named the Golden Gate in 1846; its strait was crossed in 1937 by the world's second-longest single-span bridge, 1,280…
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