Deep Bay

English Deep Bay Etymology en Proper noun Deep Bay en bay between sar/Hong Kong and prefecture-level city:also/Shenzhen p/Guangdong c/China. en June 22, 1972 Ian Stewart Chinese Refugees Swim Across a Perilous Bay to Hong Kong w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20200926051715/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/22/archives/chinese-refugees-swim-across-a-perilous-bay-to-hong-kong.html 26 September 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/22/archives/chinese-refugees-swim-across-a-perilous-bay-to-hong-kong.html 0362-4331 1645522 2 They are the refugees who swim from China across the waters of Deep Bay to Hong Kong. The escaping refugees spend four to eight hours in the water, dodging Chinese gunboats and battling the tides. They usually swim to a beacon about midway between the two shores and then make for another beacon on the Hong Kong shoreline.The large oysters of Laufaushan, which are cultivated, in beds extending far out into Deep Bay, are the delight of Hong Kong gourmets and the despair of the refugees because the refugees land with their arms and legs cut and bleeding from crawling across the oyster beds. en March 22, 1979 Jay Matthews Jay Matthews Thousands of Chinese Are Crossing Over Into Hong Kong w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240611221047/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/22/thousands-of-chinese-are-crossing-over-into-hong-kong/503f1d13-de3c-4f9e-82be-b5f41864af30/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/22/thousands-of-chinese-are-crossing-over-into-hong-kong/503f1d13-de3c-4f9e-82be-b5f41864af30/ June 11, 2024 0190-8286 2269358 After training themselves in public swimming pools or commune reservoirs, some of them swam across Deep Bay or Mirs Bay to reach Hong Kong. en 14 December 2021 Nadia Lam Hong Kong officials urged to conduct ecological study on Deep Bay wetlands before proceeding with Northern Metropolis w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20211214134832/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3159710/hong-kong-officials-urged-conduct-ecological https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3159710/hong-kong-officials-urged-conduct-ecological December 14, 2021 1563-9371 648902513 Health & Environment https://archive.ph/4Yn1z An alliance of environmental groups has urged the Hong Kong government to conduct an ecological study before taking forward plans for the Northern Metropolis megaproject so as to avoid the loss of wetlands.It also called for officials to double to 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) the size of the Ramsar wetlands site on Deep Bay’s southern shore, a natural habitat in Yuen Long district protected by international treaty. en locality carea/Huon Valley southern s/Tasmania c/Australia. Synonyms en Hau Hoi Wan Translations bay Chinese: Cantonese: yue 后海灣 Mandarin: cmn 深圳灣 Further reading Deep Bay en 1952 Deep Bay Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 496 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/496/ 3 Deep Bay, Chinese Hauhoi Wan (houʹhoiʹ wänʹ),