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
Port Tampa Bay which has exclusive truck lanes to route truck traffic from Interstate 4 directly to Port Tampa Bay, which now allows trucks to bypass city roads and travel directly between the Port and the interstate system. Tampa Bay has been used as a wide, safe harbor ever since it was first mapped by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca referred to the entire bay as a "Port," writing, "The Port of which we speak is the best in the world." In 1821, two years after the United States bought Florida from Spain, James Forbes, Military Governor