Hawke's Bay Beach

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.^[1]

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

Camels in Hawks bay.

The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.

Marine life

Endangered Green sea turtle

This beach is known for being a nesting ground for 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

Main article: Hawkes Bay case

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 teenaged boy and a young man drowned while on picnic with their family.^[5]

See also

• Hawke's Bay Town
• Mubarak Goth