Hawke's Bay Beach
Beach
A view over the beach
A view over the beach
Hawke's Bay Beach is located in Sindh
Hawke's Bay Beach
Hawke's Bay Beach
Hawke's Bay Beach is located in Pakistan
Hawke's Bay Beach
Hawke's Bay Beach
Coordinates: 24°51′37″N 66°51′49″E / 24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654
LocationKarachi, Pakistan
Offshore water bodiesBeach on Arabian Sea

Hawke's Bay or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, located 20 km southwest of Karachi city. The beach is named after Bladen Wilmer Hawke, who owned a house on the beach during the 1930s.

The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.[1]

Marine life

Endangered Green sea turtle

This beach is known for being a nesting ground for green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle during winter months. Due to this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organised a wetland centre on the beach for information regarding turtles.[2]

Hawkes Bay incidents

Various accidents have occurred due to lack of proper security and damaged boats used for giving rides to people.

  • In February 1983, a Shia pilgrim drowned near the beach.
  • On July 19, 2015, four boys drowned near the beach.[3]
  • On September 9, 2017, 12 members of three families drowned near the beach.[4]
  • On July 11, 2019, a teenager Kamran (age 14) and an adult Moiz Younus (age 24) drowned while on picnic with family.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sibtain Naqvi (31 July 2017). "CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME (scroll down to read Hawke's Bay section)". Dawn newspaper. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Hawkes Bay Beach in Karachi: A Wonderfully Sunny & Sandy Beach". Group In. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Four drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay beach". GEO TV News website. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "12 picknickers drown at Karachi's Hawksbay beach, say police". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Two drown off Hawkesbay". Dawn newspaper. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

24°51′37″N 66°51′49″E / 24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.