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The watershed of the gulf encompasses an area of 69,000 square miles (180,000 km 2), including all of Maine, 70% of New Hampshire, 56% of New Brunswick, 41% of Massachusetts, and 36% of Nova Scotia. The watershed also includes a small southern portion of the Canadian province of Quebec , which is less than 1% of the province's area.
The Androscoggin River (Abenaki: Ammoscongon) [6] is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England.It is 178 miles (286 km) [7] long and joins the Kennebec River at Merrymeeting Bay in Maine before its water empties into the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean.
1.1 Gulf of Maine north of Cape Ann. ... The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, ... Town River. Hockomock River; Lees River;
Portland Head Light, Maine, William Aiken Walker. Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the coast of Maine in the United States.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's chart for Casco Bay marks the dividing line between the bay and the Gulf of Maine as running from Bald Head on Cape Small in Phippsburg west-southwest to Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth.
Right bank of Saint John River (Maine) Saint John River. Allagash River. Musquacook Stream; Fish River. Red River; Birch River. North Branch Birch River; South Branch ...
The Kennebunk River is a 17.6-mile-long (28.3 km) [1] river in York County, Maine in the United States. It drains a settled rural area southwest of Portland, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It rises in central York County, at the junction of Carlisle Brook and Lords Brook in the town of Lyman. Lords Brook issues from Kennebunk Pond in Lyman.
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling [1]) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river [2] in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, [3] flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
It separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean. The origin of its name is obscure. The 1610 Velasco map, prepared for King James I of England, used the name "S. Georges Banck", a common practice when the name of the English patron saint, St. George, was sprinkled around the English-colonized world. By the 1850s, it was known simply as ...