Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Geography  





2 Biodiversity  





3 History  





4 See also  





5 References  














Swatch of No Ground Marine Protected Area







Simple English
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 





Coordinates: 21°1500N 89°2800E / 21.2500°N 89.4667°E / 21.2500; 89.4667
 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Swatch of No Ground Marine Protected Area
সোয়াচ অফ নো গ্রাউন্ড মেরিন সংরক্ষিত এলাকা
Map showing the location of Swatch of No Ground Marine Protected Area সোয়াচ অফ নো গ্রাউন্ড মেরিন সংরক্ষিত এলাকা
Map showing the location of Swatch of No Ground Marine Protected Area সোয়াচ অফ নো গ্রাউন্ড মেরিন সংরক্ষিত এলাকা

Location of Swatch of No Ground in Bangladesh

LocationBay of Bengal, Bangladesh
Nearest cityBagerhat
Coordinates21°15′00N 89°28′00E / 21.2500°N 89.4667°E / 21.2500; 89.4667
Area1738 sq km
Established2014
Governing bodyForest Department, Government of Bangladesh

Swatch of No Ground Marine Protected Area is a protected areaofBangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. The reserve covers an area of 1,636 km2 (632 sq mi).[1]

It was established on 26 October 2014, making it the first Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the country. The area hosts important habitats for several endangered creatures such as various species of dolphins and whales.[2]

Geography

[edit]

The Swatch of No Ground (SoNG) is a 14 km wide trench in the Bay of Bengal. It is located 30 km from Dublar Char Islands, located in the Sundarbans. This deepest trench has a record size of about 1340 meters (400–450 m deeper than the surrounding mean seafloor depth of 1000 m).[3] It has an average depth of about 1,200 meters underwater. This underwater trench is a part of the Bengal Fan, the largest underwater fan in the world.[4][5] The fan in the Bay of Bengal, south of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, is also known as Ganga Fan.

Biodiversity

[edit]

The area has notable biodiversity of oceanic fauna such as cetaceans, sea turtles, fish, and sea birds. Among these, local populations of cetaceans have been the primal focus of past studies; core species include Bryde's whales, spinner dolphins, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, pantropical spotted dolphins, Irrawaddy dolphins, Indo-Pacific finless porpoises, and species with less-frequency include minke whales, rough-toothed dolphins and false killer whales.[6][7] Some of these species are genetically unique and endangered.[8]

There are a number of other notable species in the area, such as whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, tunas, groupers, hawksbill turtles, olive ridley turtles, masked boobies, great black-backed gulls, crested terns, swimming crabs, and so on.[7]

History

[edit]

In the past, fishermen who lived nearby did not get any measurement by their native bamboo measurement system "Bam" (Bengali: বাম), and named it "Na Bam" (Bengali: না বাম, No Bam or, Bamless). It is one of the eleven largest valleys in the world. It is said[weasel words] that here in 1863, a 212 tonne gunboat named Gadfly sank in a storm while carrying a huge amount of treasure from India to the United Kingdom.[9][full citation needed]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "বন্যপ্রানী অভয়ারণ্য" [Wildlife Sanctuary]. জীববৈচিত্র্য ও বন্যপ্রাণী সংরক্ষণ (in Bengali). 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  • ^ "Swatch of No-Ground declared protected zone". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  • ^ Morphological features in the Bay of Bengal Archived 14 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine URL accessed 21 January 2007
  • ^ Curray, Joseph R.; Emmel, Frans J.; Moore (December 2002). "The Bengal Fan: morphology, geometry, stratigraphy, history and processes". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 19 (10). Elsevier Science Ltd: 1191–1223. Bibcode:2002MarPG..19.1191C. doi:10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00035-7.
  • ^ France-Lanord, Christian; Spiess, Volkhard; Molnar, Peter; Curray, Joseph R. (March 2000). "Summary on the Bengal Fan: An introduction to a drilling proposal" (PDF). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  • ^ Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project, 2015, Proposal to establish a marine protected area in the Swatch-of-No-Ground submarine canyon and surrounding coastal waters in the Bay of Bengal (pdf)
  • ^ a b Anisuzzaman Khan (2017), "Swatch of No-ground: A treasure trove of marine lives"
  • ^ Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force, Swatch of No Ground IMMA
  • ^ Current Affairs, January 2017, p. 91
  • ^ The Business Standard, 2021, High-powered team suggested for supervision of marine protected areas

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swatch_of_No_Ground_Marine_Protected_Area&oldid=1217103241"

    Categories: 
    Protected areas of Bangladesh
    Bay of Bengal
    Hidden categories: 
    Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
    CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn)
    Webarchive template wayback links
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    Articles containing Bengali-language text
    Coordinates on Wikidata
    All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases
    Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from March 2024
    All articles with incomplete citations
    Articles with incomplete citations from December 2021
     



    This page was last edited on 3 April 2024, at 21:15 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki