Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Mallard Bay:
34.034866, -81.382324
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Mallard Bay
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Lexington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Mallard Bay.
Within South Carolina, the name Mallard Bay is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Mallard Bay in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Oklahoma
Wagoner County
This Mallard Bay is located in Wagoner County and lies 795 miles [1,279.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Mallard Bay that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wagoner County community of Mallard Bay.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mallard Bay ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Mallard Bay to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mallard Bay and extending to:
Lexington, which is the Seat of Lexington County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Mallard Bay to Lexington, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 19 miles [30.6 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take 6 hours and walking would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 413 miles [664.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,297 miles [10,134 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,992 miles [11,252.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,873 miles [7,842.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mallard Bay) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<3>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Mallard Bay to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mallard Bay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0349, Longitude: -81.3823 In this case, the coordinates for Mallard Bay have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.521 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.725 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.054 degrees.