Hawke's Bay Beach

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Camels in Hawks bay.

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.[1]

The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.

Marine life

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Endangered Green sea turtle

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

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  • 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 teenaged boy and a young man drowned while on picnic with their family.[5]

See also

References

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