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Great Bay (beach)
Great Bay may refer to a water body in the United States: * Great Bay (New Hampshire), a tidal estuary in southeastern New Hampshire * Great Bay (New Jersey) Great Bay is located in southern New Jersey's Atlantic Coastal Plain in Ocean and Atlantic Counties, about north of Atlantic City and south of New York City. The Mullica River flows into the bay, and together they form the Mullica River - Gr ..., a tidal estuary north of Atlantic City It may refer, also to: * Great Bay, Tasmania. a locality in Australia * Great Bay, a videogame location from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bay (New Hampshire)
Great Bay is a tidal estuary located in Strafford and Rockingham counties in eastern New Hampshire, United States. The bay occupies over , not including its several tidal river tributaries. Its outlet is at Hilton Point in Dover, New Hampshire, where waters from the bay flow into the Piscataqua River, thence proceeding southeast to the Atlantic Ocean near Portsmouth. The northern end of the bay, near its outlet, is referred to as Little Bay. Geography Located within the Gulf of Maine watershed, the Great Bay Estuary is a drowned river valley composed of high-energy tidal waters, deep channels and fringing mudflats. The entire estuary extends inland from the mouth of the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and New Castle, New Hampshire through Little Bay into Great Bay proper at Furber Strait, a distance of . The Great Bay Estuary is a tidally-dominated system and is the drainage confluence of three major rivers, the Lamprey, Squamscott, and Winnicut. Four additional river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bay (New Jersey)
Great Bay is located in southern New Jersey's Atlantic Coastal Plain in Ocean and Atlantic Counties, about north of Atlantic City and south of New York City. The Mullica River flows into the bay, and together they form the Mullica River - Great Bay estuary habitat. The bay is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Little Egg Inlet. Great Bay is considered one of the least-disturbed marine wetlands habitats in the northeastern United States. General Great Bay averages about in depth, and extensive areas of the estuarine substratum are covered with benthic algae and some vascular plants (seagrasses). Eelgrass (''Zostera marina'') beds are an important component of the submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) community in Great Bay, generally where depths are or less but, due to the slightly greater depth in Great Bay, these are not as ubiquitous as they are in the Barnegat/Manahawkin/Little Egg system to the north. Extensive areas ({{convert, 13.58, km2, acre, abbr=on of intertida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bay, Tasmania
Great Bay is a rural locality on Bruny Island in the local government area of Kingborough in the Hobart region of Tasmania. It is located about north-east of the town of Alonnah, the largest town on the island. The 2016 census Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ... determined a population of 57 for the state suburb of Great Bay. The Bruny Island Airport is located within the suburb of Great Bay. History Great Bay is a confirmed suburb/locality. In 1829 the Protector of Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson, set up an Aboriginal settlement near Great Bay (the body of water) on Bruny Island. It was here that Truganini first met Robinson. Geography The D'Entrecasteaux Channel forms the western boundary. This includes the southern half of Great Bay (the body of wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
