Dublin Bay

53.333251 - 6.111946Koordinaten: 53 ° 20 '0 "N, 6 ° 6' 43 " W

The Dublin Bay ( Irish: Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath ), and Dublin Bay, is the Δ -shaped estuary of the rivers Liffey and Dodder in the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland in Dublin.

The bay is an average of around 5 meters deep and has a north- south extent of the Howth Head Peninsula in the north to the port of Dun Laoghaire in the south of about 10 km and an east- west distance of 7 km. The small sandy island of North Bull is in the northwest of the bay and extends over 5 km. On the island there are two golf courses. Two artificially constructed dams with lighthouses make up the actual entrance to the port of Dublin.

The metropolitan area of Dublin surrounding Dublin Bay in the north, west and south on three sides completely, while the Irish Sea is to the east. In the Middle Ages, when the sand deposits of the Liffey had the bay not so silted up, the Dublin Bay stretched 6 km to the west.

501 passengers and crew members of the Irish steamship RMS Leinster lost their lives when it was sunk on 10 Oct 1918 by two torpedoes of the German U- boat UB -123. The wreck lies in 33 meters depth on ground ( latitude 53 ° 18 ' 88 " N ( 53 324 ); longitude 5 ° 47' 71 " W).

Geographic Coordinates

  • Width: 53 ° 20 '4 " N ( 53.33444 )
  • Length: 6 ° 6 ' 38 "W ( -6.110556 )
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