Half Moon
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Half Moon is a lunar phase coinciding with neap tides, which are often easier for seafarers than spring tides. This would apply to the first quarter and last (third) quarter moon; in both cases, half of the moon's disk is lit. A crescent is a geometrical and symbolic moon shape.
Half Moon can also refer to:
- Ships
- Halve Maen or Half Moon (ship) – a Dutch East India Company ship with which Henry Hudson explored parts of North America
- Half Moon (shipwreck) – a German ship that sank off the coast of Florida in 1930
- USS Half Moon (AVP-26), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946
- USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378), later WHEC-378, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1948 to 1969
- Places
- Half Moon, North Carolina
- Halfmoon, New York
- Half Moon Bay, the name of various places
- Half Moon Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica
- Halfmoon Campground, a campground in the east crazy mountains in Yellowstone National Park.
- Other
- Half Moon (film) – a 2006 Iranian film directed by Bahman Ghobadi
- Half Moon – a common name for an English pub
- A black and white cookie
- Half Moon Party, a bi-monthly event on Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand
- The Half Moon (music venue), a music venue in London
- Halfmoon – a fish species
- Half Moon (Efteling), a ship swing in Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands
- Fingernail half moons, the Lunula (anatomy)
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