The city of Vancouver, situated on a peninsula, is surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean. Stanley Park, which is in effect a peninsula upon the peninsula, is nearly encircled by the ocean. English Bay is to its west, Burrard Inlet to its north, and Coal Harbour, which is a portion of the Inlet, to its east. English Bay is a major waterway for pleasure and working craft, and Burrard Inlet, where the Port of Vancouver has its principal location, a prime waterway for commercial shipping traffic. Stanley Park, which occupies the entire northwest end of the Burrard Peninsula, and is entirely within the boundaries of the city of Vancouver, has a shoreline that stretches some nine kilometres (5½ miles) entirely along the Pacific Ocean. It is an unusually large urban park, some 405 hectares (1,000 acres) in size.