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Walfish Bay

American  
[wawl-fish] / ˈwɔl fɪʃ /

noun

  1. Walvis Bay.


Walfish Bay British  
/ ˈwɔːlfɪʃ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Walvis Bay

"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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In the neighborhood of Walfish Bay man and beast live upon this gourd almost exclusively for three months in the year.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

A line drawn from Port Elizabeth north-west across the Karroo in the direction of Walfish Bay roughly divides the regions of the winter and summer rains.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

On reaching Walfish Bay, we safely embarked the valuable produce we had collected.

From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston

From this vast territory we must exclude the only port on the coast, Walfish Bay, which with a little tract of land around it belongs to Cape Colony.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Of rivers running direct to the Atlantic the Little Fish river enters the sea at Angra Pequena and the Kuisip in Walfish Bay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

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