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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)[1]
Hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese arrive at Bombay Hook each year to rest
Map showing the location of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Map showing the location of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Location in Delaware
Map showing the location of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Map showing the location of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge (the United States)
LocationKent County, Delaware, United States
Coordinates39°15′34″N 75°28′28″W / 39.259473°N 75.474358°W / 39.259473; -75.474358
Area25 sq mi (65 km2)
Established1937
Named forCorruption of the Dutch "Boompjes" or "Boompjes Hoeck" meaning "little-tree point"
VisitorsOpen daily
WebsiteBombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,978-acre (64.66 km2) National Wildlife Refuge located along the eastern coast of Kent County, Delaware, United States, on Delaware Bay. It was established on March 16, 1937, as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory and wintering waterfowl along the Atlantic Flyway. The Refuge was purchased from local land owners with federal duck stamp funds.[2]

Today, the refuge protects wildlife of all kinds, with emphasis on all migratory birds. The refuge also contains the Allee House, a pre-revolutionary war farmhouse on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a stop on Delaware's Coastal Heritage Greenway.

  1. ^ "Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge". Protected Planet. IUCN. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. ^ USFWS History brochure. Archived May 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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