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Recent Examples of roadsteadTwo light cruisers and the USS Utah lay off its starboard bow, and Battleship Row, the famed but vulnerable roadstead for the Navy’s mightiest, was on the other side of Ford Island.—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024 Container ships and oil tankers, waiting for a berth, are assigned a place to anchor in the roadstead off Long Beach and Huntington Harbor.—Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021 The Anzio roadstead was thick with Allied ships, but the Germans owned the skies.—Bartle Bull, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
South Island The South Island is renowned for its spectacular natural scenery from the golden beaches of the Abel Tasman to the fiords and mountains in the Southern Alps.
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Amy Louise Bailey,
Travel + Leisure,
20 June 2024
Inside the park, travelers can explore the 421-meter Doubtful Sound, New Zealand's deepest fiord, which is home to bottlenose dolphins, fur seals, and penguins, according to Tourism New Zealand.
So is avoiding areas like estuaries, which are natural fish nurseries, and any area that has a lot of fish or bird life or a lot of seals or sea lions.
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Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
What was once a pristine estuary has become a hotspot for pollution, habitat loss, and stress.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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