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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (officially the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary) is an 842-square-mile (636 sq nmi; 2,181 km 2) United States Government-protected national marine sanctuary located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay between Cape Cod and Cape Ann.
The bay extends from Cape Ann on the north to Plymouth Harbor on the south, a distance of about 42 miles (68 km). Its northern and southern shores incline toward each other through the entrance to Boston Harbor, where they are about five miles apart. The depth from the base of the triangle to Boston Harbor is about 21 miles (34 km).
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)". [4]
"Boston, November 5. Last week we had a very heavy storm of wind and rain, the severity of it was on Wednesday, no great damage down in this Harbour; but in the Bay the wind being violent at N.E. many vessels were in great distress. It is said 17 sail, chiefly sloops, were drove on the Southern Shore [including]...
A North Atlantic right whale named Archipelago, or No. 3370, was seen Wednesday surface feeding in Cape Cod Bay, one of the first two right whales sighted in Cape Cod Bay this season.
Admission is charged for vehicles and pedestrians at the rate for all Cape Cod National Seashore beaches. [2] Marconi Beach is popular among locals and tourists for surfing and boogie boarding. It is one of five Cape Cod national seashore beaches that are on the ocean side of the Cape, generally providing a better surf than beaches on the bay side.
A right whale makes a pass by the research vessel Shearwater Monday in Cape Cod Bay, giving researchers a closer look at its head. Photos were taken under the Center for Coastal Studies NOAA ...
SCITUATE − Say chum! A great white shark in Scituate was recently captured in a too-close-for-comfort video coming snout to lens with an underwater camera operated by the Cape-based Atlantic ...