{{Short description|Bay of the South China Sea}} [[File:Dapengmap.png|300px|thumb|Daya Bay in the [[Pearl River Delta]] region]]
'''Daya Bay''' ({{zh |s = 大亚湾 |t = 大亞灣 |p = Dàyà Wān |j = daai<sup>6</sup>aa<sup>3</sup> waan<sup>1</sup>}}), formerly known as '''Bias Bay''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-2611430&fid=1226&c=china|title=Bias Bay, China - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates|website=geographic.org}}</ref> is a bay of the [[South China Sea]] on the south coast of [[Guangdong]] Province in [[China]]. It is bordered by [[Shenzhen]]'s [[Dapeng Peninsula]] to the west and [[Huizhou]] to the north and east.
==History== The bay was a hideout of pirates<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 March 1927 |title=Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), Friday 25 March 1927, page 1 |page=1 |newspaper=Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954) |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163396638 |url-status= |access-date=May 27, 2021}}</ref> in the 1920s, when the Republic of China government was occupied with conducting the [[Northern Expedition]].<ref name="hktelegraph_19290116">{{cite news |title = Ship Sink Off Waglan |newspaper = The Hongkong Telegraph |date = 1929-01-16}}</ref> Part of it was seized by the Japanese military in the [[Canton Operation]].
==Environment== Historically, Daya Bay had whales and turtles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.porttechnology.org/images/uploads/technical_papers/PT29-06.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406191455/https://www.porttechnology.org/images/uploads/technical_papers/PT29-06.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Dredging in China under strict environment control|archivedate=Apr 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://www.chncup.com/?action=news&method=news&id=6664 大辣甲岛海域现死亡鲸鱼 死因未明]</ref> The bay was one of the breeding grounds along the southern coast of China for Asian population of [[gray whale]]s, which are now one of the most endangered whale population in the world.{{cn|date=June 2025}} They migrated to the bay to calve in the winter-spring seasons. Other species, such as [[humpback whale]]s, also historically migrated to Daya Bay. All of these were wiped out by Japanese whalers established whaling stations on various sites on Chinese coasts including at nearby Daya Bay.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jefferson|first1=Thomas A.|last2=Hung|first2=Samuel K.|date=2007-01-01|title=An updated, annotated checklist of the marine mammals of Hong Kong|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1236311/files/article.pdf|journal=Mammalia|volume=71|issue=3|pages=105–114|doi=10.1515/MAMM.2007.021}}</ref><ref>Rockwell D.H., 2009, [http://csiwhalesalive.org/csi2009_04.pdf When in Rome, Do as the Whales Do!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504084933/http://fiordlandkindy.blogspot.jp/2009/04/whales-at-doubtful-sound.html |date=2014-05-04 }}</ref> Critically endangered [[Chinese white dolphin]]s and occasional whales such as humpbacks have been confirmed in the bay in recent years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shenzhen.sina.com.cn/news/m/2016-07-26/detail-ifxuhukv7473961.shtml|title=大亚湾发现中华白海豚 专家：应保持百米安全距离|website=shenzhen.sina.com.cn}}</ref>
== Transportation == The freight-only [[Huizhou–Dayawan railway]] connects Daya Bay with the Chinese railway network.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 December 2008|title=惠大铁路进港线明年五一前通车|trans-title=Huida Railway port extension will open 1 May next year|language=zh|url=http://e.hznews.com/paper/djsb/20081225/03/1/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015182430/http://e.hznews.com/paper/djsb/20081225/03/1/|archive-date=15 October 2011|access-date=19 February 2021|website=huizhou.cn}}</ref> In the future, the area will be served by the [[Shenzhen–Dayawan intercity railway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=深圳机场至大亚湾城际深圳机场至坪山段工程环境影响评价第二次信息公告 |url=https://www.szmc.net/home/xinwenzhongxin/gongsigonggao/202011/85372.html |publisher=Shenzhen Metro |access-date=6 April 2021 |language=zh |date=6 November 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://dayawane.ihep.ac.cn/docs/location.html Location of Daya Bay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118023644/http://dayawane.ihep.ac.cn/docs/location.html |date=2009-11-18 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203005951/http://www.hknuclear.com/nflash/eng/html/gnips.htm Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant] * [http://dayawane.ihep.ac.cn/ Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment]
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[[Category:bays of Guangdong]]