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Georges Bank (formerly known as St. Georges Bank) is a large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada). It separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean. The origin of its name is obscure.
In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a dispute between Canada and the United States over fishing and other resource rights in the Gulf of Maine, specifically in the Georges Bank region. This dispute was taken to the International Court of Justice, which delineated a maritime boundary through the gulf in 1984.
The Georges Bank restricts water movement into the gulf by the Great South and Northeast channels that bisect the George's Bank. [4] By contrast, the Mid Atlantic Bight's depth generally increases with distance from shore, and is less deep than the Gulf of Maine.
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