Front Bay
Front Bay is the official name of the waterbody that is now more usually known as
Bombay Harbour . It is where the wharfs and docks of Bombay are located.The name is because the city was originally a very tiny settlement facing the harbour. The city was built around the nucleus of the
Casa da Orta , a Portuguese castle that was renamed as and expanded intoFort St. George , Bombay town and finally the City of Bombay. The waterbody behind this settlement, forming an arc between the [former] islands ofColaba and Bombay island, going up to the Malabar Hill promontory or peninsula, is called Back Bay.After India's independence in 1947, ironically, the docklands have been walled-off and rendered out-of-bounds to common citizens and as a result, the city has re-oriented so that it faces Back Bay rather than Front Bay.
ee also
*Back Bay
*Mumbai Harbour
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