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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ha Long Bay' has mentioned 'Bay' in the following places:
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Administratively, the bay belongs to Hxe1xbaxa1 Long city, Cxe1xbaxa9m Phxe1xbaxa3 city, and is a part of Vxc3xa2n xc4x90xe1xbbx93n District. | WIKI |
The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various shapes and sizes. | WIKI |
Ha Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bai Tu Long Bay to the northeast, and Cxc3xa1t Bxc3xa0 Island to the southwest. | WIKI |
The core of the bay has an area of 334xc2xa0km2 (129xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) with a high density of 775 islets. | WIKI |
[1] The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. | WIKI |
The evolution of the karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the impact of the tropical wet climate. | WIKI |
500 years ago, Nguyxe1xbbx85n Trxc3xa3i praised the beauty of Ha Long Bay in his verse Lxe1xbbx99 nhxe1xbaxadp Vxc3xa2n xc4x90xe1xbbx93n, in which he called it "rock wonder in the sky". | WIKI |
[8] In 1962, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of North Vietnam listed Ha Long Bay in the National Relics and Landscapes publication. | WIKI |
[9] In 1994, the core zone of Ha Long Bay was listed as a World Heritage Site according to Criterion VII, and listed for a second time according to Criterion VIII. | WIKI |
These jewels turned into the islands and islets dotting the bay, linking together to form a great wall against the invaders. | WIKI |
After winning the battle, the dragons were interested in peaceful sightseeing of the Earth, and then decided to live in this bay. | WIKI |
The bay consists of a dense cluster of some 1,600[12] limestone monolithic islands each topped with thick jungle vegetation, rising spectacularly from the ocean. | WIKI |
The bay stretches from Quang Yen town, past Hxe1xbaxa1 Long city, Cxe1xbaxa9m Phxe1xbaxa3 city to Vxc3xa2n xc4x90xe1xbbx93n District, is bordered on the south and southeast by Lan Ha Bay, on the north by Hxe1xbaxa1 Long city, and on the west by Bai Tu Long Bay. | WIKI |
The bay has a 120-kilometre-long (75xc2xa0mi) coastline and is approximately 1,553xc2xa0km2 (600xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) in size with about 2,000 islets. | WIKI |
The climate of the bay is tropical, wet, sea islands, with two seasons: hot and moist summer, dry and cold winter. | WIKI |
Ha Long Bay has the typical diurnal tide system (tide amplitude ranges from 3.5xe2x80x934 metres or 11xe2x80x9313 feet). | WIKI |
Residents of the bay mostly live on boats and rafts buoyed by tires and plastic jugs to facilitate the fishing, cultivating and breeding of aquatic and marine species. | WIKI |
Residents of the floating villages around the Ha Long bay now offer bedrooms for rent, boat tours, and fresh seafood meals to tourists. | WIKI |
At present ((clarify)), the Quxe1xbaxa3ng Ninh provincial government has a policy to relocate the households living in the bay to resettle, in order to stabilize their life and to protect the landscape of the heritage zone. | WIKI |
The limestone karstic geomorphology of the bay was developed since Miocene, especially the cone-shaped hills (fengcong), or isolated high limestone karst towers (fenglin) with many remnants of old phreatic caves, old karstic foot caves, marine notch caves form magnificent limestone karst landforms as unique on the world. | WIKI |
During the Carboniferous and Permian periods (340-250 million years ago), Ha Long Bay was at shallow sea level. | WIKI |
Due to a simultaneous combination of ideal factors such as thick, pale, grey, and strong limestone layers, which are formed by fine-grained materials; hot and moist climate and slow tectonic process as a whole; Ha Long Bay has had a complete karst evolution for 20 million years. | WIKI |
There are many types of karst topography in the bay, such as karst field. | WIKI |
The hundreds of rocky islands with form the beautiful and famous landscape of the Bay are the individual towers of a classic Fenglin landscape where the intervening plains have been submerged by the sea. | WIKI |
For example, Dau Be island at the mouth of the Bay has six enclosed lakes including those of the Ba Ham lakes lying within its fengcong karst. | WIKI |
The Bay contains examples of the landscape elements of fengcong, fenglin and karst plain. | WIKI |
The marine notch is a feature of limestone coastline but, in Ha Long Bay, it has created the mature landscape. | WIKI |
Trinh Nu, which is one of the larger foot caves in Ha Long Bay with its ceiling at about 12m above sea level and about 80m in length, was developed in multiple stages. | WIKI |
One of the most unusual features of Ha Long Bay is the Bo Ham lake group of hidden lakes and their connecting tunnel xe2x80x93 notch caves in Dau Be island. | WIKI |
The fenglin tower karst, which is the type present in much of Ha Long Bay, is the most extreme form of limestone landscape development. | WIKI |
If these karst landscapes are broadly compared in terms of their height, steepness and number of their limestone towers, Ha Long Bay is probably second in the entire world only to Yangshou, in China. | WIKI |
The marine invasion distinguishes Ha Long Bay and makes it unique in the world. | WIKI |
There are other areas of submerged karst towers which were invaded by the sea, but none is as extensive as Ha Long Bay. | WIKI |
Some of the most remarkable geological events in Hxe1xbaxa1 Long Bay's history have occurred in the last 1,000 years, include the advance of the sea, the raising of the bay area, strong erosion that has formed coral, and, pure blue and heavily salted water. | WIKI |
Present-day Ha Long Bay is the result of this long process of geological evolution that has been influenced by so many factors. | WIKI |
Due to all these factors, tourists visiting Ha Long Bay are not only treated to one of the natural wonders of the world, but also to a precious geological museum that has been naturally preserved in the open air for the last 300 million years. | WIKI |
Date Geologic period Events 570,000,000xe2x80x93500,000,000 BC beginning of the Cambrian Period The area, which now forms Ha Long Bay, was basically mainland, subject to a process of rain erosion. | WIKI |
end of the Cambrian Period The area was flooded, commencing the existence of Ha Long Bay. | WIKI |
These two layers constitute the majority of the islands of the Bay. | WIKI |
early Holocene Epoch The islands of today's Ha Long Bay are basically remnants of these mountains, flooded. | WIKI |
5000xe2x80x932000 BC The movement of the sea reached its peak and forming today's Ha Long Bay. | WIKI |
The bay is home to seven endemic species: Livistona halongensis, Impatiens halongensis, Chirita halongensis, Chirita hiepii, Chirita modesta, Paraboea halongensis and Alpinia calcicola. | WIKI |
The many islands that dot the bay are home to a great many other species, including (but likely not limited to): 477 magnoliales, 12 pteris, 20 salt marsh flora; and 4 amphibia, 10 reptilia, 40 aves, and 4 mammalia. | WIKI |
Common aquatic species found in the bay include: cuttlefish (mxe1xbbxb1c); oyster (hxc3xa0o); cyclinae (ngxc3xa1n); prawns (penaeidea (txc3xb4m he), panulirus (txc3xb4m hxc3xb9m), parapenaeopsis (txc3xb4m sxe1xbaxaft), etc. | WIKI |
Local government and businesses are aware of the problems and many measures have been taken to minimise the impact of tourism on the bay environment for sustainable economic growth like introducing eco-friendly tours and introducing tight waste control on resorts. | WIKI |
In 1962, the Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism designated Ha Long Bay a 'Renowned National Landscape Monument'. | WIKI |
In 2000 the World Heritage Committee additionally recognised Ha Long Bay for its outstanding geological and geomorphological value,[12] and its World Heritage Listing was updated. | WIKI |
In October 2011, World Monuments Fund included the bay on the 2012 World Monuments Watch, citing tourism pressures and associated development as threats to the site that must be addressed. | WIKI |
In 2012, New 7 Wonders Foundation officially named Ha Long Bay as one of New Seven Natural Wonders of the world. | WIKI |
Ha Long Bay is also a member of the Club of the Most Beautiful Bays of the World. | WIKI |
In writings about Ha Long Bay, the following Vietnamese writers said: | WIKI |
Ha Long bay's inhabitants have developed numerous tales explaining names given to various isles and caves in the bay. | WIKI |
Ha Long Bay, located in the Gulf of Tonkin, within Quang Ninh Province, in the northeast of Vietnam, is165 km from the capital of Ha Noi. | UNESCO |
Criterion (vii): Comprised of a multitude of limestone islands and islets rising from the sea, in a variety of sizes and shapes and presenting picturesque, unspoiled nature, Ha Long Bay is a spectacular seascape sculpted by nature. | UNESCO |
Criterion (viii): As the most extensive and best known example of marine-invaded tower karst in the world Ha Long Bay is one of the worldxe2x80x99s most important areas of Fengcong (clusters of conical peaks) and Fenglin (isolated tower features) karst. | UNESCO |
All elements necessary to sufficiently protect the outstanding scenic and geological values of the Ha Long Bay property are included within the boundaries of the property and its size and area provide sufficient integrity for the large scale geomorphological processes to operate unhindered. | UNESCO |
Located within an area of high tourism, marine transport, fisheries and the daily activities of people living and conducting their business on Ha Long Bay, management of the area, instituted since inscription of the property, applies strict regulation and control of activities in an attempt to minimize impacts on the integrity of the property. | UNESCO |
Ha Long Bay was established as a historical and cultural relict and classified as a National Landscape Site in 1962. | UNESCO |
The Ha Long Bay Management Department was established after the inscription of Ha Long Bay on the World Heritage List, with the main functions of management, conservation and promotion of the propertyxe2x80x99s values. | UNESCO |
Socio-economic activities on Ha Long Bay are well regulated, carefully observed and effectively managed. | UNESCO |
These include Ha Long Bay to 2020, the master plan on conservation, management and development of the values of World Natural Heritage approved by the Prime Minister in 2001, and the Comprehensive Management Plan for the Ha Long Bay World Heritage Site 2010 - 2015 approved by the provincial authority in 2010. | UNESCO |
In the long-term, management of the property will focus on: ensuring the integrity of the scenic, geological and geomorphologic values, as well as the propertyxe2x80x99s environment; strengthening the legislative provisions; carefully monitoring of the socio-economic activities on Ha Long Bay; increasing the use of technology in heritage management; undertaking research to gain better understanding of the propertyxe2x80x99sxc2xa0 values; improving the staff capacity and enhancing community awareness and involvement. | UNESCO |