Onega Bay of the bay there are the town of Belomorsk and the outlet of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. From the east, the bay is limited by the Onega Peninsula. In the south-east, the town of Onega is located close to the shore of the bay. Administratively, the coast and the islands are shared between Kemsky and Belomorsky Districts of the Republic of Karelia, and Onezhsky, Primorsky, and Solovetsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Most of the minor islands, including all of Sumsky Skerries, belong to Belomorsky District. The Onega Bay coast was populated by Russians (Novgorodians, of whom the pomors are the
Salinas of the English Port loggerhead sea turtle ("Caretta caretta"). It hosts characteristic sand dune and wetland birds, including the greater hoopoe-lark ("Alaemon alaudipes"), the black-crowned sparrow lark ("Eremopterix nigriceps"), bar-tailed lark ("Ammomanes cinctura"), the sanderling ("Calidris alba") and the bar-tailed godwit ("Limosa lapponica"). It also has an important population of the Kentish plover: 50% of the total population of Cape Verde (150-300 individuals). Salinas of the English Port Salinas of the English Port () is a saline wetland in the southwestern part of the island of Maio, Cape Verde, northwest of the city Porto Inglês. It is a protected area ("Paisagem Protegida das Salinas