Hawke's Bay Beach

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]

Hawke's Bay Beach
A view over the beach
LocationKarachi, Pakistan
Coordinates24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654
Offshore water bodiesBeach on Arabian Sea
GeologyBeach

Marine Life
Endangered Green sea turtle

This beach is known for being a nesting ground of 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
Main article: Hawkes Bay case

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
  1. Sibtain Naqvi (31 July 2017). "CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME (scroll down to read Hawke's Bay section)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. "Hawkes Bay Beach in Karachi: A Wonderfully Sunny & Sandy Beach". Group In. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  3. "Four drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay beach". GEO News website. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  4. "Karachi: 12 people drown at Hawke's Bay | Samaa Digital". Samaa TV News website. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  5. "Two drown off Hawkesbay". Dawn (newspaper). 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2020.

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