Hawke's Bay Beach
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Beach
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A view over the beach
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  Hawke's Bay Beach Show map of Sindh  Hawke's Bay Beach Show map of Pakistan | |
| Coordinates: 24°51′37″N 66°51′49″E / 24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654 | |
| Location | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Offshore water bodies | Beach on Arabian Sea |
Hawke's BayorHawkesbay is a beachinKarachi, 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.
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]
Various accidents have occurred due to lack of proper security and damaged boats used for giving rides to people.
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24°51′37″N 66°51′49″E / 24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654
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