Dublin Bay
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 6 ′ 43 ″ W.
The Dublin Bay ( Irish : Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath ), including Dublin Bay , 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 on average around 5 meters deep and has a north-south extension from the Howth Head peninsula in the north to the port of Dún Laoghaire in the south of about 10 km and an east-west extension of 7 km. The small sand island of North Bull is located in the northwest of the bay and extends for 5 km. There are two golf courses on the island. Two man-made dams with lighthouses form the actual entrance to the port of Dublin.
The Dublin metropolitan area completely encloses Dublin Bay on three sides to the north, west and south, while the Irish Sea lies to the east. In the Middle Ages, when the sand deposits of the Liffey had not yet silted up the bay, Dublin Bay expanded 6 km further west.
501 passengers and crew members of the Irish steamship RMS Leinster lost their lives than on 10 October 1918, when two torpedoes of the German submarine UB-123 was sunk. The wreck is aground at 33 meters (latitude 53 ° 18 '88 "N (53,324); longitude 5 ° 47' 71" W).
Geographic coordinates
- Latitude: 53 ° 20 '4 "N (53.33444)
- Longitude : 6 ° 6 '38 "W (-6.110556)