Isle of Wight Bay is a
lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') ...
that separates part of mainland
Worcester County, Maryland
Worcester County is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,460. Its county seat is Snow Hill.
It is the only county of Maryland that borders the Atlantic Ocean, and the only cou ...
from the midtown part of
Ocean City, also in Worcester County. To the north, it connects to the
Assawoman Bay just south of the
Assawoman Bay Bridge
The Assawoman Bay Bridge crosses the Assawoman Bay in Ocean City, Maryland. The bridge carries Maryland Route 90, a freeway, into northern Ocean City, Maryland. The bridge consists of two lanes and is undivided, but it is heavily travelled. I ...
, and to the south it connects to the
Sinepuxent Bay
Sinepuxent Bay is an inland waterway which connects Chincoteague Bay to Isle of Wight Bay, and is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Ocean City Inlet. It separates Sinepuxent Neck, in Worcester County, Maryland from Assateague Island, and We ...
at the north end of
West Ocean City
West Ocean City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
West Ocean Cit ...
where the bay narrows between the Thoroughfare channel and Mallard Island. The major tributary of Isle of Wight Bay is the
St. Martin's River; other tributaries include
Turville Creek
Turville is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, west of High Wycombe, east-southeast of Watlington, north of Henley-on-Thames and 2 miles (3 km) from the Oxfordshire border. The name is An ...
, Manklin Creek, and Herring Creek.
References
External links
Isle of Wight Bay watershed profile
Bays of Maryland
Bodies of water of Worcester County, Maryland
Lagoons of the United States
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