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A section of the Intracoastal Waterway in Pamlico County, North Carolina, crossed by the Hobucken Bridge Inland Waterways, Intracoastal Waterways, and navigable waterways. The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the ...
This is a route-map template for the Intracoastal Waterway, a waterway in the United States. For a key to symbols, see {{ waterways legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
There is no single route or itinerary to complete the loop. To avoid winter ice and summer hurricanes, boaters generally traverse the Great Lakes and Canadian waterways in summer, travel down the Mississippi or the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway in fall, cross the Gulf of Mexico and Florida in the winter, and travel up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the spring.
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW [1]) is the portion of the Intracoastal Waterway located along the Gulf Coast of the United States. It is a navigable inland waterway running approximately 1,300 mi (2,100 km) [ 1 ] from Saint Marks, Florida , to Brownsville , Texas .
The inland and intracoastal waterway system handles about 630 million tons of cargo annually, or about 17 percent of all intercity freight by volume. [ citation needed ] These are raw materials or primary manufactured products that are typically stored for further processing or consumption, or transshipped for overseas markets.
Northwest Passage routes Envisat ASAR mosaic of the Arctic Ocean (September 2007), showing the most direct route of the Northwest Passage closed (yellow line) and the Northeast Passage partially opened (blue line). The dark grey colour represents the ice-free areas, while green represents areas with sea ice.
This is a list of waterways that form the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, sometimes called the Intracoastal Canal, and crossings (bridges, tunnels and ferries) of it. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
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 ...