Breakfast lovers may be a little disappointed to learn that the name of this Australian bay, located on the southeastern coast of Tasmania, actually comes from a local wildflower instead of fatty cured pork. The eggs-and-bacon flower (also known as the bird's-foot trefoil) covers the gently rolling hills above the bay in November and December. The flower is named for its petals that are yellow on the outside and a streaky red in the middle.

The Chesapeake Bay’s watershed covers a whopping 64,000 square miles, and it begins at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River in Cooperstown, New York. Over half of the Chesapeake Bay’s waters comes from this watershed, which is located about 400 miles to the north. The Glimmerglass State Park eight miles outside Cooperstown offers a view of the watershed’s beginnings.

Not only was the 1933 Baffin Bay Earthquake the largest ever recorded along the eastern continental divide of North America, but its magnitude of 7.3 also makes it among the largest ever to reach the Arctic Circle. The offshore location of the earthquake meant that even though it was massive in size, it didn’t cause any significant damage on land.

Alaska’s Resurrection Bay got its name because a Russian trader named Alexander Baranov retreated into the bay during a severe storm that finally ended on Easter Sunday in 1792. The bay is located on the Kenai Peninsula. Seward, located at the head of the bay, is the primary gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park.

Standing proud over Tokyo Bay is a familiar statue: the Statue of Liberty. While the replica might seem like a tribute to America, it actually symbolizes the friendship between Japan and France (the country that created the original statue). The Odaiba Statue of Liberty was initially intended to be a temporary installation but became a permanent landmark in the harbor in 2000.

As of 2022, less than 100 individual Irrawaddy dolphins were believed to exist in the wild, and they all are found along the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal and in three nearby rivers: the Ayeyarwady, the Mahakam, and the Mekong. Irrawaddy dolphins are distinguishable by their bulging head and short beak.

Twice daily, the Bay of Fundy in Canada sees over 175 billion tons of seawater flowing in and out with the tides, an amount greater than the combined amount of all the freshwater rivers on Earth. Because of these massive tides, the Bay of Fundy is completely transformed every six hours from a full bay with inlets to expansive tidal flats. Tides can sometimes peak at over 50 feet high.

Paradise Bay may not be your typical idea of paradise, unless you’re one of the many Gentoo penguins that call it home. The bay remains below freezing year-round, and it is one of two Antarctic docking sites for cruise ships. Two research bases are found at the bay: Argentina’s Almirante Brown Antarctic Base and Chile’s Gonzalez Videla Antarctic Base.

When James Cook arrived in the bay off the northeastern coast of New Zealand’s North Island in 1769, he named it the Bay of Plenty for the generous provisions offered by the Maori people living on its shores. One of the most remarkable geological features of the bay is Whakaari, also known as White Island, an 800-acre volcanic island rising 1,000 feet above the bay. It is New Zealand’s most continuously active and largest volcano by volume.

South Africa borders four bays, and two of them were frequently confused for one another by sailors. False Bay can be found on the south side of Cape Peninsula, and it got its name because many navigators mistakenly believed they had reached Table Bay, which is to the north. False Bay is heavily stocked with fish, and runs about six degrees warmer than Table Bay because of its proximity to the Indian Ocean.

Hudson Bay borders four provinces in Canada: Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario, and the Nunavut territory. The world’s second-largest bay also connects to two different oceans, with the Hudson Strait leading to the Atlantic, and the Foxe Channel leading to the Arctic. The bay is home to animals such as walrus, dolphins, killer whales and polar bears.

Born in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck based many of his novels in the state of California, including his 1945 book “Cannery Row.” The novel focuses on people struggling during the Great Depression, including a marine biologist, a grocer, and a drifter. The street stretching along Monterey Bay was named Cannery Row in 1958.

Bordering several states in the mid-Atlantic region, Chesapeake Bay is where 70 to 90% of the country’s population of Atlantic striped bass spawns. Also known as the rockfish because the fish tend to hide among oyster reefs and rocks, the Atlantic striped bass is Maryland’s state fish. The Chesapeake Bay’s largest striped bass on record weighed 67.5 pounds and was caught in 1995.

At 316,000 square miles, Canada’s Hudson Bay is the world’s second-largest bay. Like the river, the bay was named for Henry Hudson, who sailed on the Discovery in 1610 and landed in Canada while trying to find a Northwest passage to Asia. While the east coast of Hudson Bay was mapped in 1612 and the south coast was charted in 1631, the west coast wasn’t fully mapped until the 1800s.

A towering symbol of the Sunshine State, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is located where Tampa Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico. The cable-stayed concrete bridge is over four miles long — the longest of its kind in the world — and connects the city of St. Petersburg on the Pinellas peninsula to Sarasota and other cities to the south. The current bridge opened in 1987, and replaced the previous bridge that tragically collapsed in 1980.

Covering over 839,000 square miles in the northeastern Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal is the largest bay on Earth. The bay is about 1,000 miles wide, with a maximum depth of over 15,000 feet. About a half-dozen major rivers run into the bay, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra from the north, and the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri from the west.

Covering more than 260,000 square miles, Baffin Bay spans across the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe. Its western border is Canada, and its eastern border is Greenland. It is named after one of the first European explorers to visit the Bay, William Baffin.

The Bay of Bengal is located in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, bordered by India to the west, Sri Lanka to the south, and the Malay Peninsula to the east. Bangladesh is at the northern end of the bay, where the Ganges River delta empties into the bay. Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is located along the bay’s the eastern shore, along with Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Located in Northern California, the San Francisco Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean via the Golden Gate Strait. When the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 above the strait, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, with a total span of 1.7 miles. Today, the San Francisco Bay area metropolitan region is home to over 7.7 million people, the second-most populous in California.

Biscayne Bay is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Florida. The city of Miami lies along its northern border, and the bay reaches some of the Florida Keys in the south. Biscayne Bay’s shallow waters are home to a wide variety of birds, as well as sea turtles and manatees. Biscayne National Park encompasses a large segment of the bay.