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Buzzards Bay was created during the latter portion of the Pleistocene epoch through the interplay of glacial and oceanic processes. Beginning fifty thousand to seventy thousand years ago, the edges of the continental ice sheet covering much of North America began to fluctuate, leaving moraines to mark the former extent of the receded ice.
Buzzards Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,859 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] It is the most populous of the five CDPs in Bourne.
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
The Elizabeth Islands are a chain of over 20 small islands extending southwest from the southern coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the United States. [1] They are located at the outer edge of Buzzards Bay, north of Martha's Vineyard, from which they are separated by Vineyard Sound, and constitute the town of Gosnold in Dukes County, Massachusetts.
The hill is part of Buzzards Bay Moraine, created over ten thousand years ago by retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age. [6] It is two miles (3.2 km) inland from Buzzards Bay itself and a mile from Massachusetts Route 28. The area is distinguished by sandy soil, bouldery till and an abundance of the pitch pine that gives the hill ...
Padanaram [ˈpeɪdnˌɛɹəm] is a coastal village in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States. The village is located on Buzzards Bay , more specifically near the inlet of Apponagansett Bay. History
Quick's Hole (locally / ˈ k w ɪ k s ɪ z /) [2] is the strait in Massachusetts' Elizabeth Islands separating Nashawena Island from Pasque Island. It is one of four straits allowing maritime passage between Buzzards Bay and the Vineyard Sound. The others are Canapitsit Channel, Robinson's Hole and Woods Hole.
Buzzards Bay: 50.336: 81.008: Route 25 west / Route 28 south to I-195 west / I-495 north – Boston, Falmouth, The Islands: Buzzards Bay Rotary; eastern terminus and exit 10 on Route 25; eastern end of Route 28 concurrency: Sagamore: 53.673: 86.378: Western end of freeway section: 1: Route 3 north / Meetinghouse Lane – Plymouth, Boston