Bees Wax Bay, SC
This is a large Bay in South Carolina, with a cute name. I have not identified a reason this is named Bees Wax Bay, but it does carry that name in the USGS Geo-names database. Conforms well to the common bayCarolina archetype, but is beginning to show signs of the more pointed south-eastern tip, as seen in the baySouth archetype.
Two drainage channels cross the bay rim, one at the southeastern tip and another on the eastern flank. Agricultural use seems to be only timber production, except for a small area on the southeastern tip which is open farmland.
The immediate area is covered with smaller bays having a similar shape and orientation. A small dune field extends off the southeastern rim, presenting a terrain which has no correlation to the bay rim structure, and the direction of wind captured in those dunes is certainly not perpendicular to the major axis of the bay.
Two drainage channels cross the bay rim, one at the southeastern tip and another on the eastern flank. Agricultural use seems to be only timber production, except for a small area on the southeastern tip which is open farmland.
The immediate area is covered with smaller bays having a similar shape and orientation. A small dune field extends off the southeastern rim, presenting a terrain which has no correlation to the bay rim structure, and the direction of wind captured in those dunes is certainly not perpendicular to the major axis of the bay.
- Index #: 137320_2431
- Location: 34.31241110422168,-80.07884080963656
- Major: 2.48 km . . . Minor: 1.66 km
- Eccentricity: 0.743
- Area: 324.46 hectares
- Bearing: 145.25º
- Elevation: 63.24 m
- Planform: bayCarolina
- Effective Diameter: 2,032.521
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