Brigantine Inlet is an

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

connecting

Little Bay Little Bay is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Little Bay is located 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Randwic ...

with the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Atlantic County, New Jersey Atlantic County is a county located along the southern coast of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county had a population of 274,534.Brigantine Island Brigantine Island (also known as Brigantine Beach Island) is an island off the Atlantic Ocean coast of New Jersey, located northeast of Atlantic City. It is long. The resort community of Brigantine is located on the island. The island is accessi ...

from Little Beach, and including its continuation, Brigantine Channel, connects Little Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. It was described in 1834 as, Brigantine Inlet was described in 1878, ''viz''.,

History

Brigantine Inlet is named on a map published in 1749 by Lewis Evans, although it appears, unlabeled, on earlier maps.''A Map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, And the Three Delaware Counties'', Lewis Evans, 1749 The inlet had closed by 1800, about the time of the opening of

Little Egg Inlet Little Egg Inlet is an inlet connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Bay along the southeastern coast of New Jersey, United States. Little Egg Inlet forms a maritime border separating Little Egg Harbor Township in southern Ocean County and Gal ...

, and, as abovementioned, was still closed in 1834. Shortly thereafter, Brigantine Inlet had reopened. The Annual Report of the New Jersey State Geologist for 1905 addressed and described the dynamic of the opening and closing of inlets in the Little Egg Harbor area:

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