Clifford Bay
| Clifford Bay | |
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Aerial image of the area around Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau, with Clifford Bay in the lower right of the image. | |
| Location | Marlborough District, South Island |
| Coordinates | 41°40′55″S 174°12′54″E / 41.682°S 174.215°E |
| Type | Bay |
| Etymology | Named after Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet |
| Part of | Cook Strait |
| River sources | Awatere River, Otuwhero River |
| Basin countries | New Zealand |
| Max. length | 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) |
| Max. width | 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) |
| Shore length1 | 22 kilometres (14 mi) |
| Location | |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
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Clifford Bay is a bay in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand, in the Marlborough Region. It lies between Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay to the northwest, and Cape Campbell to the southeast. The bay's shoreline is dominated by extensive solar salt extraction works at Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau, close to the southern end of the bay. The area has also regularly been explored as a potential location for an interisland ferry terminal connected to Wellington, but this has never progressed to construction.