The Great Marsh (also sometimes called the Great Salt Marsh
) is a long, continuous
saltmarsh in eastern
New England extending from
Cape Ann in northeastern
Massachusetts to the southeastern coast of
New Hampshire.
It includes roughly 20,000–30,000
acres of saltwater marsh,
mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers. A global analysis published in 2019 suggested that tidal fl ...
s, islands, sandy beaches,
dunes, rivers, and other water bodies.
The Great Marsh comprises much of the northeastern half of
Essex County, Massachusetts, and touches the towns and cities of
Essex,
Gloucester,
Newburyport,
Newbury,
Rowley Rowley may refer to:
Places Canada
* Rowley, Alberta
* Rowley Island, Nunavut
United Kingdom
* Rowley, County Durham, a hamlet
* Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
* Rowley, Shropshire, a location in Shropshire, England
* Rowley Regis, ...
,
Ipswich, and
Salisbury in Massachusetts as well as the towns of
Seabrook and
Hampton in New Hampshire.
It is a designated
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
.
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Salt marshes
Newbury, Massachusetts
Rowley, Massachusetts
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Wetlands of Massachusetts