Charles Reef is a small rocky
shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It ...
about half a mile (0.8 kilometers) south and west of
Madison Reef Madison Reef is a series of submerged rock shoals about 1.65 miles (2.65 kilometers) long and one mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore of Madison in New Haven County, Connecticut. It is between four and seventeen feet (1.21 and 5.18 meters) deep, and sepa ...
, off the coast of
Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
in
New Haven County
New Haven County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, the population was 864,835, making it the third-most populous county in Connecticut. Two of the state's top 5 largest cities, New ...
,
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
. It is between 7 and 18 feet deep and surrounded by deeper waters. A buoy marks the location.
See also
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Round Rock, Madison
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Tuxis Island
Tuxis Island, sometimes uncommonly spelled Tunxis, is a small, uninhabited island about off the shore of Madison in New Haven County, Connecticut in the United States. Tuxis Island is about in area, and covered mostly in trees. The island's ele ...
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Gull Rock, Madison
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Thimble Islands
The Thimble Islands is an archipelago consisting of small islands in Long Island Sound, located in and around the harbor of Stony Creek in the southeast corner of Branford, Connecticut. The islands are under the jurisdiction of the United Sta ...
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Madison Reef Madison Reef is a series of submerged rock shoals about 1.65 miles (2.65 kilometers) long and one mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore of Madison in New Haven County, Connecticut. It is between four and seventeen feet (1.21 and 5.18 meters) deep, and sepa ...
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Outer Lands
The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and th ...
References
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Landforms of New Haven County, Connecticut
Long Island Sound
Shoals of the United States
Madison, Connecticut