Chesapeake Bay - Wikipedia
The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s ə p iː k / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.The mouth of the bay at its southern point is …
Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Wikipedia
The Gov. William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge (informally called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and, locally, the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland.Spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it connects the state's rural Eastern Shore region with its urban and suburban Western Shore, running between Stevensville and Sandy Point State Park near the …
Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia.It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s. A major project to dualize its bridges was completed in …
Chesapeake Bay - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chesapeake Bay is about 200 miles (300 km) long, from the Susquehanna River in the north to the Atlantic Ocean. At its narrowest point between Kent County's Plum Point (near Newtown) and the Harford County shore near Romney Creek, the bay isabout 2.8 miles (4.5 km) wide. At the widest location, it is 30 miles (50 km) wide.
Chesapeake Bay | Maryland, Island, Map, Bridge, & Facts
2024年10月29日 · Chesapeake Bay, largest inlet in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States.Created by the submergence of the lower courses of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, it is 193 miles (311 km) long and 3 to 25 miles (5 to 40 km) wide. The southern part of the bay is bordered by Virginia and its northern part by Maryland.Its entrance from the …
List of Chesapeake Bay rivers - Wikipedia
This list of Chesapeake Bay rivers includes the main rivers draining into the Chesapeake Bay estuarine complex on the mid-Atlantic eastern coast of the United States, North America. The three largest rivers in order of both discharge and watershed area are the Susquehanna River, the Potomac River, and the James River. [1] [2] Other major rivers include the Rappahannock …
Chesapeake Bay Program - Wikipedia
Map of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that directs and conducts the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. As a partnership, the Chesapeake Bay Program brings together members of various state, federal, academic and local watershed organizations to build and adopt policies that support …
Category:Chesapeake Bay - Wikipedia
The Chesapeake Bay is a major North American bay, estuary, and geographic region and is located in the central Intracoastal Waterway area of the East Coast of the United States, in Maryland and Virginia.
Chesapeake Bay - National Wildlife Federation
The Chesapeake Bay is a very large and complex ecosystem with many kinds of wildlife habitats, including forests, wetlands, rivers, and the bay estuary itself. The bay supports over 3,600 species of plant and animal life, including more than 300 fish species and 2,700 plant types.
Chesapeake campaign - Wikipedia
The Chesapeake campaign was a strategic offensive of the Royal Navy designed to destroy American naval resources, vessels, forts, dockyards and arsenals; and impose a full naval blockade of the Atlantic Coast in order to seize ships and powder magazines from Charleston to New York. [1]The Chesapeake campaign battles: [NB 1] Rappahannock (3 April 1813) A …
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