Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km2) in area,[2] the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean.
The bay is bordered inland by the states of Delaware and New Jersey, and the Delaware Capes, Cape Henlopen and Cape May, on the Atlantic. Delaware Bay is bordered by six counties: Sussex, Kent, and New Castle in Delaware, along with Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem in New Jersey. The Cape May–Lewes Ferry crosses Delaware Bay from Cape May, New Jersey, to Lewes, Delaware. The bay's ports are managed by the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
The shores of the bay are largely composed of salt marshes and mudflats, with only small communities inhabiting the shore of the lower bay. Several of the rivers hold protected status for their salt marsh wetlands bordering the bay, which serves as a breeding ground for many aquatic species, including horseshoe crabs. The bay is also a prime oystering ground.
Delaware Bay was designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on May 20, 1992. It was the first site classified in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.
^ ab"Delaware Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ abOverview of the Delaware River Watershed Archived 2005-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
^"Delaware Bay Estuary". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
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Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent DelawareBay, which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an...
the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, before emptying into DelawareBay. The river has been recognized by the National Wildlife...
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captured the more heavily armed warship HMS General Monk in the Battle of DelawareBay. He was given command of Monk (renamed General Washington) and sailed...
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is a list of bridges, ferries, and other crossings of the Delaware River and DelawareBay from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to the confluence of the East...
the Delaware, down that river to Christiana or Newcastle, and through the third canal to Elk River and the Chesapeake, whence, sailing down that bay and...
the Raritan and DelawareBay Railroad Company (R&DB), in March 1854. The R&DB was chartered to construct a railroad from the Raritan Bay to Cape Island...
Lakewood and Lakehurst. The line started as part of the Raritan and DelawareBay Railroad, and soon passed through the ownership of the New Jersey Southern...
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