Hawke's Bay Beach | |
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Beach | |
 A view over the beach | |
  Hawke's Bay Beach  Hawke's Bay Beach | |
| Coordinates: 24°51′37″N 66°51′49″E / 24.860202°N 66.863654°E | |
| Location | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Offshore water bodies | Beach 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]
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Marine life
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Hawkes Bay Beach in Karachi: A Wonderfully Sunny & Sandy Beach". Group In. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Four drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay beach". GEO TV News website. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ "12 picknickers drown at Karachi's Hawksbay beach, say police". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Two drown off Hawkesbay". Dawn newspaper. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
External links
Media related to Hawksbay Beach, Karachi at Wikimedia Commons
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