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Jervis Bay

British  
/ ˈdʒɑːvɪs /

noun

  1. an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia, in Jervis Bay Territory on the coast of S New South Wales: regarded for some purposes as part of the Australian Capital Territory: site of the Royal Australian Naval College

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Naveed told his family before the shooting that he was taking his father on a fishing trip to Jervis Bay, about two hours south of Sydney.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

Since that announcement, the fleet was grounded in March after a Taipan ditched off the New South Wales state coast near the naval base at Jervis Bay during a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Jervis Bay, a resort town between Sydney and Canberra on Australia’s southeastern coast, usually boasts beaches of soft white sand and seawater of crystalline clarity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2020

The episode, off the coast of Jervis Bay in New South Wales, is infamous and the subject of two royal commissions.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2018

On these plains I found small nodules of highly ferruginous sandstone, apparently similar to that which occurs near Jervis Bay and in other places along the eastern coast.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell

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