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Half Moon Bay, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 11842
Housing Units (2000): 4114
Land area (2000): 6.471658 sq. miles (16.761516 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022868 sq. miles (0.059228 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.494526 sq. miles (16.820744 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31708
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.458840 N, 122.436848 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94019
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Half Moon Bay (disambiguation)

Half Moon Bay is a city in San Mateo County, California

Half Moon Bay may also refer to:

Half Moon Bay (Victoria)

The Half Moon Bay is a bay and neighbourhood on Port Phillip, south east of Melbourne. Located in the suburb of Black Rock, it is home to the Black Rock Yacht Club, the Half Moon Bay Lifesaving Club and the Cerberus Beach House Restaurant and Beach Kiosk. This bay also gets a mention in the Cat Empire song, "The Wine Song". Half Moon Bay is also home to HMVS Cerberus, the last surviving monitor warship in the world, which acts as a breakwater. Half Moon Bay has a lifesaving club and a pier and has the Red Bluff Cliffs just along the beach. The cliffs were briefly featured in the movie "Mad Max'" as well as the 90's children's television series "Round The Twist". Half Moon Bay also has aquatic life which makes good snorkelling. It features many coastal processes.

The first Black Rock Post Office opened here on 23 April 1902, was renamed Half Moon Bay in 1922 and closed in 1968.

Half Moon Bay (California)

Half Moon Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of San Mateo County, California. The bay is approximately semi-circular, hence the name half moon, with sea access to the south. Coastal towns located there are Princeton-by-the-Sea, Miramar, El Granada, and the city of Half Moon Bay.

The surfing location Mavericks is located on the outer edge of the peninsula which forms the bay. Miramar Beach is located along the shore of the bay opposite the peninsula.

Marine species include flatfish, the commercially important English sole, rockfish, surfperch, Pacific herring, lingcod; and abundant winter species including starry flounder and top- smelt.

The bay provides an example of a logarithmic spiral beach.

Half Moon Bay (Nunavut)

Half Moon Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located off northwestern Bathurst Island, the bay is on the east side of May Inlet. Other bays in the area include Purcell Bay, Dampier Bay, and Stuart Bay.

Half Moon Bay (album)

Half Moon Bay is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Marty Morell recorded at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, in Half Moon Bay, California in 1973 and released on the Milestone label in 1998.

Usage examples of "half moon bay".

About two years ago he showed up here, opened a sub-office, and took on representing the Temple down at Half Moon Bay.

The room has west-facing windows, affording a view down the grassy slope to Half Moon Bay.

South of Half Moon Bay, Randy decided to stop and make himself a snack.

About thirty miles south of San Francisco, for instance, is a village called Half Moon Bay, where motorcycle outlaws are arrested on sight.

If they wanted to make an issue of such an obvious harassment policy they could almost certainly get any arrest thrown out of court -- but to do that would take time and money, and Half Moon Bay isn't that important to them.

She passed Sun Bay and Half Moon Bay, and then stopped the car about five miles beyond when something odd caught her eye just past the trees.