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Despite its name, sharks swimming in the Shark River Inlet are a rare occurrence. The origin of the name Shark River is unknown. Some locals will claim the inlet got its name from a shark found in the river during the 1800s, while others believe the name is from the shark teeth commonly found upstream. [1]
A colorized depiction of the Hudson Canyon and the New York Bight area. The New York/New Jersey Bight is the geological identification applied to a roughly triangular indentation, regarded as a bight, along the Atlantic coast of the United States that extends northeasterly from Cape May Inlet in New Jersey to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island.
The state of New Jersey took action and licensed Theophilus Beebe, owner of a fishing smack at the Fulton Fish Market, as the first New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilot for the ports of Perth Amboy, Newark, and New York Bay. For the first time there was competition between the two states. [15] Sandy Hook Pilot's License (1854).
Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 42 miles (68 km) long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States. It is separated from the Atlantic by the long Island Beach State Park (colloquially called a " barrier island "), as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island , popular segments ...
High Bar Harbor is a neighborhood and unincorporated community located in the north-westernmost portion of Long Beach Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [1] The area is on Long Beach Island , west of Barnegat Light .
The 79-acre (0.32 km 2) Bulls Island Recreation Area is on Bulls Island at Raven Rock along the Delaware River approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Stockton, within Delaware Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. The park is a part of the 3,578 acres (14.48 km 2) Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park. It offers a boat ...
Ship Bottom is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore, within Ocean County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,098, [9] a decrease of 58 (−5.0%) from the 2010 census count of 1,156, [18] [19] which in turn had reflected a decline of 228 (−16.5%) from the 1,384 counted in the 2000 census. [20]
Arthur Kill contains two small uninhabited islands, Prall's Island and the Isle of Meadows, both of which are part of the borough of Staten Island. John's Cove is located near its northern end in New Jersey. On the New Jersey side, the Elizabeth River, [7] Rahway River, Morses Creek, [8] and Piles Creek [9] flow into the kill.