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Port Phillip Bay

American  

noun

  1. a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.


Port Phillip Bay British  
/ ˈfɪlɪp /

noun

  1. a bay in SE Australia, which forms the harbour of Melbourne

"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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The effort reaches as far as Australia, where The Nature Conservancy’s “Shuck, Don’t Chuck” program recycles oysters to restore colonies in places including Port Phillip Bay.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2021

During a trip to Melbourne, I took a detour to dive off the coast of Queenscliff, a small town at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2017

To test this, the team, which included evolutionary biologist from the University of Melbourne and Mark Norman from Museum Victoria, observed the mating habits of 51 southern bottletail squid collected in Port Phillip Bay.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2013

A hot air balloon steered off course and missed its landing, forcing it to put down in the middle of Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay on Thursday.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2011

So we drift to the outermost pier of all—the Breakwater, half of which is stone rampart between Hobson's Bay and Port Phillip Bay, which stands to us for open sea.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

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