Karamea Bight

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The Karamea Bight is the name given to a large bay in the Tasman Sea formed by a curved stretch of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.{{Cite web|last1=Laing|first1=Andrew|last2=Reid|first2=Steve|last3=Hooper|first3=Glenn|date=1997|title=Wave Conditions in the Karamea Bight, New Zealand from Measurements and Modelling|url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.050371589115069|access-date=2021-05-22|via=search.informit.org|language=EN}} It stretches for 100 kilometres north from Cape Foulwind to just north of the mouth of the Heaphy River.{{Cite journal|last=Stanton|first=B. R.|date=March 1971|title=Hydrology of Karamea Bight, New Zealand|journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=141–163|doi=10.1080/00288330.1971.9515373|issn=0028-8330|doi-access=free}}