Talk:Bay of Fundy
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Where can you find the tides listing in data form?
---Draconixty
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[edit] Tidal electrical power generation
This section is heavily biased towards one position, and it doesn't cite sources.
[edit] Pigs herded into the Bay to feed
The following text was moved here from the article:
- OK. I know that this will be deleted by the powers that be, but I hope that someone will see this and maybe help. Sometime, roughly 20, 25 years ago, I read a piece in a newspaper about the Bay of Fundy. The gist of the article was that local farmers would herd their pigs onto the low tide area of the Bay and let them feed on the stuff that was left after the water receded. Then, the pigs would have to scurry to higher land when the tide came back in. Because of their diet and exercise that they received, these pigs produced very lean bacon. I told this story to my wife at the time and she laughed for hours on end. I know to a mortal certainity that I read this somewhere, but I've never been able to track it down. Does anyone else ever remember reading this? If so, email me at dropball@gmail.com and let me know that I'm not crazy. Thanks. JB (User:68.97.116.155).
[edit] The quest for world tidal dominance
I just wanted to say that I loved the "The quest for world tidal dominance..." paragraph. It absolutely cracked me up, and I was glad to see it. Sometimes, the quest for pure NPOV drains all the life and humor out of an article (the 1911 Britannica certainly wouldn't pass Wikipedia's standards), and whoever wrote this deserves kudos for adding a light touch without sacrificing encyclopedic quality. CSWarren 10:21, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What kind of caption is this?
The caption under the second picture (of a boat and dock on the bay of Fundy) currently reads: Thass pretty Maritimey rayt therr
[edit] How much water ?
Only 200 million m³ ? Just 1 km³ is 1 billion m³.
[edit] Etymology of "Fundy"
The article states: "The name "Fundy" is thought to date back to the 16th century when the Portuguese referred to the bay as "Rio Fundo" or "deep river"."
Could we provide a source for this? From my understanding -- and I think that the toponomical column that used to run in Canadian Geographic is where I first ran into the etymology of Fundy -- the name "Fundy" is a corruption of "fendu", the French word meaning "split", as in "Cape Split", located dead-smack in the middle of the Bay. The use of "la baie du cap fendu" (The bay of the split cape) would have been adopted by the English settlers as Bay of Fendu, but ultimately pronounced "Fundy" due to the absence of the nasal "en" and the "u" sounds in English. Zapallon 17:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] REQUEST for Metric range conversion to US Standard
there are those who cannot interpret metric figures, myself included, it would help to see some numbers i can make sense of. Murakumo-Elite 10:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
