The most concrete proof of this great expectation lies on the waterfront of the Marina Bay business district, on the south of the island.
The nearest confirmed sighting of a Great White to the South West coast has been 200 miles away in the Bay of Biscay.
It enjoys immense natural resources and dominance of international trade routes to and from south central China and the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.
The Republican victory was also tempered by Democratic wins in conservative pockets of the state, including the hills and hollows of the south-west and the quiet coves and salt marshes of Chesapeake Bay.
As Daniel Brebner of Deutsche Bank points out, that is considerably more than the annual capacity of Richards Bay in South Africa or Newcastle in Australia, the world's biggest coal ports.
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Serving Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique, the 579km-long lake is accessible in Malawi via the towns of Mangochi or Monkey Bay in the south and via Mzuzu, Karonga or Nkhata Bay in the north.
Our boat throttles forward and we head out of the almost-deserted bay of Luka Soline, into the morning light, moving south across an island-dotted sea.
The city of Palo Alto issued an email to residents subscribed to an emergency information e-mail list that said the city, which sits on San Francisco Bay, more than 30 miles south of the Golden Gate Bridge, appeared to be at little risk.
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Half an hour south of San Francisco is Miramar Beach, one of the many beaches on Half Moon Bay.
Equally, what is China doing building roads, ports and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan, connecting west and south-west China with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean?
But venture five miles south of Bodega Bay on Hwy 1 to the tiny town of Bodega and you will find two Birds icons: the schoolhouse and the church along Bodega Lane.
In 1852, the British troop ship Birkenhead sank off Simon's Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 485 lives.
The company has a large and growing outpost in the Bay Area, just south of San Francisco in San Bruno, California.
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The river runs south past Mobile and into Mobile Bay, which in turn flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
The south west parish includes one of the island's most popular beaches - St Brelade's Bay - and is the third most populated parish with 10, 568 people, or 11% of the population.
Barbara Boxer, who represented the Bay Area 6th District immediately south of Riggs' before winning her Senate seat in 1992.
New Hampshire's tax phobia even influenced Taxachusetts to the south, where popular pressure has made the Bay State much more reasonable (compared with the rest of the Northeast) in its income tax--which is flat--as well as its property taxes.
Christmas Tree Cove is one of these hidden spots, a beautiful rocky beach just south of Lunada Bay that requires a steep hike down to the water.
This weekend, while riding the train south down the bay from San Francisco, I sat in front of a group of young women who talked incessantly about Tumblr.
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Manila sprawls east from Manila Bay along the Pasig River, and immediately south of the river is Intramuros, the old walled Spanish town where many of the city's historical sites are found.
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Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.
To the east, the new and up-and-coming neighbourhoods of Mission Bay and South Beach are vibrant and walkable.
When Sandy hit, water rushed in from the bay and a network of water channels, flooding hundreds of homes south of the Belt Parkway.
Cyclone Mohasen currently in the Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify and land Thursday just south of Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh.
Plettenberg Bay is one of South Africa's most stunning chunks of coastline, and the town was bracing itself for the arrival of thousands of students who come each December for the "Plett Rage" - a riot of post-exams music and excess.
Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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So shark experts Neil Hammerschlag of the University of Miami in Florida, US, and Aiden Martin of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, decided to study the predatory habits of great white sharks hunting off Seal Island, in False Bay, South Africa.
South Wales Police said the stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club will be the area searched on Thursday for Mr Thompson, who is a worker at South Hook LNG gas plant in Pembrokeshire.
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