Jervis Bay
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
But in Jervis Bay, Australia, unusually large numbers of one species — Octopus tetricus, better known as the gloomy octopus — gather at sites affectionately nicknamed Octopolis and Octlantis.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
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
From November 19th to December 2nd the Astrolabe cruised along the coast, touching only at Jervis Bay, remarkable for its magnificent eucalyptus forests.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.
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