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Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound. The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name.
The Thames River (/ θ eɪ m z / THAYMZ [1]) is a short river and tidal estuary in the state of Connecticut.It flows south for 15 miles (24 km) [2] through eastern Connecticut from the junction of the Yantic River and Shetucket River at Norwich, Connecticut, to New London and Groton, Connecticut, which flank its mouth at Long Island Sound.
From west to east, the sound stretches 110 mi (180 km) from the East River and the Throgs Neck Bridge in New York City, along the North Shore of Long Island, to Block Island Sound. A mix of freshwater from tributaries, and saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean , Long Island Sound is 21 mi (34 km) at its widest point and varies in depth from 65 to ...
Coastal Connecticut, often called the Connecticut Shore or the Connecticut Shoreline, comprises all of Connecticut's southern border along Long Island Sound, from Greenwich in the west to Stonington in the east, as well as the tidal portions of the Housatonic River, Quinnipiac River, Connecticut River, and Thames River.
1.8 Long Island Sound. 1.9 New York Harbor. 2 Alphabetically. ... Thames River (Connecticut) Shetucket River (Connecticut) ... Professor Higbee's Stream Map of New ...
Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound; Hart Island; Hay Island (Connecticut) Head of the Harbor, New York; Hempstead Harbor; High Island (Bronx) Horse Island (Connecticut) Horseshoe Harbor (Long Island Sound) Housatonic River; Huckleberry Island; Huguenot Yacht Club (Long Island Sound) Hunter Island (Bronx) Huntington Bay, New York; Hutchinson River
Lancaster Sound between Devon Island and Baffin Island in Nunavut; Mackenzie Sound in Broughton Archipelago of the Queen Charlotte Strait region; Massey Sound between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut; Nansen Sound between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut; Newman Sound in Terra Nova National Park ...
The growing season is quite long in New London. Like much of coastal Connecticut and Long Island, NY, it averages close to 200 frost free days. The new 2023 USDA Garden Zone Map has New London in zone 7a. New London falls into the same garden zone as locations like Trenton, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, or Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. By the ...