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Just like traffic lights and signs help drivers on the road, boaters have buoys and signs to guide them to and from shore safely.
The Corps of Engineers marks the Intracoastal with channel markers like this one. Locations along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway are defined in terms of statute miles (as opposed to nautical miles , in which most marine routes are measured) east and west of Harvey Lock, a navigation lock in the New Orleans area located at 29°54′32″N 90°05 ...
Leading lights, also known as range lights in the United States, are a pair of light beacons used in navigation [2] to indicate a safe passage for vessels entering a shallow or dangerous channel; they may also be used for position fixing. At night, the lights are a form of leading line that can be used for safe navigation. The beacons consist ...
The term "fairway" usually means all the navigable waters between the fairway buoys (that indicate the ends of the channel), even the routes only accessible to the lighter-draft vessels. [1] Some authors restrict the definition to the linear approach part of a marine waterway, the approach channel leading into a port. [5]
A breachway is the shore along a channel, or the whole area around the place where a channel meets the ocean. The Rhode Island coastline has many breachways on its map.Today's permanent breachways have rock jetties that line the sides of the channel to protect against erosion or closing of the waterway.
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The Hennepin Canal State Trail, also just called the Hennepin Canal, is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Opened in 1907, the canal was soon abandoned because of railroad competition.
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [1] waterway in south central Louisiana in the United States.Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.