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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 The Anzio roadstead was thick with Allied ships, but the Germans owned the skies.—Bartle Bull, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
Chinese leader Xi Jinping attended the commissioning ceremony for the Fujian at a military port in Sanya on Hainan island earlier this week, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Brown said the store is in a small car port attached to the garage, and the produce is displayed on tables and in refrigerated cases.
Tucked away along a tranquil, sandy bay on the island's southern coast, the 38-acre resort feels perfectly secluded, further enhancing its air of exclusivity.
The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the continental United States—used to be packed with oysters, more than anyone today might imagine.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
Mangroves exist in the intertidal zones of warm rivers, estuaries and bays, growing in the sediment brought to the coast by the freshwater rivers and tides, according to the Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
In fact, Singer Island was once the north end of Palm Beach, until dredging created an inlet that separates the two island.
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Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
As waves and ocean currents carried sand from northern barrier islands over decades, the inlet shifted south, closing the breach between the two islands.
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