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Gwangpo Bay is located in Sacheon city, South Korea. The Bay is located at the estuary of Gonyang Stream, and the City is located in the middle of the southern seashore of South Korea. Gwangpo Bay is a part of larger Sacheon Bay, which is surrounded by Sacheon City, Gwangyang City, and Namhae County. According to Korean Ministry of Land, Transportation, and Marine Affairs, a plan made by local government in 2008 to reclaim Gwangpo Bay covers area of 1,976,256 square meter. The length of the Bay is about 3 kilo meter, and the width of the Bay is about 1.3 kilo meter. ==Wildlife== According to Sacheon Branch〔()〕 of Korean Federation for Environmental Movement〔()〕 (Friends of the Earth Korea,〔()〕), 117 species of birds were found in this bay by the research conducted from 2000 to 2007. During the research, 150 Saunders's gulls were found together. White-naped cranes and black-faced spoonbills were also found here. A large area of the bay is covered with seashore lawn grass (''Zoysia sinica''), and it is estimated that this is the biggest community of this species in Korea.〔 Communities of a threatened species 〔List of threatened species designated by Korean Ministry of Environment http://yeongsan.me.go.kr/pr/ext.jsp〕 of ''Ellobium chinense'', which belongs to the mollusc family Ellobiidae were found in June 2008 inside the community of seashore lawn grass. And a community of eelgrass (''Zostera marina'') was found in the Gwangpo Bay. Eelgrass is regarded as a very important ecology member, as it provides fishes spawning ground, and it absorb a great amount of CO2. According to research conducted in Gwangyang Bay, next to Gwangpo Bay, 57 species of fishes were found in the eelgrass.〔Hur Seonghoi and Gwak Suknam, 1997, Species Composition and Seasonal Variations of Fishes in Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed in Kwangyang Bay, Korean journal of ichthyology, Vol.9 No.1 http://www.riss4u.net/link?id=A3109386 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwangpo Bay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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