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Hawke's Bay or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, located 20 km southwest of Karachi city. The beach is named after Bladen Wilmer Hawke, who owned a house on the beach during the 1930s. The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.[1]

Hawke's Bay Beach
Beach
A view over the beach
Hawke's Bay Beach Show map of Sindh Hawke's Bay Beach Show map of Pakistan
Coordinates: 24.860202°N 66.863654°E / 24.860202; 66.863654
Location	Karachi, Pakistan
Offshore water bodies	Beach on Arabian Sea

Marine Life

This beach is known for being a nesting ground of green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle during winter months. Due to this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organised a wetland centre on the beach for information regarding turtles.[2]

Hawkes Bay incidents

Various accidents have occurred due to lack of proper security and damaged boats used for giving rides to people.

• In February 1983, a Shia pilgrim drowned near the beach.
• On July 19, 2015, four boys drowned near the beach.[3]
• On September 9, 2017, 12 members of three families drowned near the beach.[4]
• On July 11, 2019, a teenager Kamran (age 14) and an adult Moiz Younus (age 24) drowned while on picnic with family.[5]

See also

• Hawke's Bay Town
• Mubarak Goth

References

External links

• Media related to Hawksbay Beach, Karachi at Wikimedia Commons

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