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About 18,000 years ago, Connecticut, Long Island Sound, and much of Long Island were covered by a thick sheet of ice, part of the Late Wisconsin Glacier. About 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in its interior and about 1,300 to 1,600 feet (400 to 500 m) thick along its southern edge, it was the most recent of a series of glaciations that covered the ...
The Y-49 Cable (also known as the Long Island Sound Cable) is an undersea and underground high voltage electric transmission cable between Westchester County and Long Island via the Long Island Sound and Hempstead Harbor in New York, United States. It is operated by the New York Power Authority.
The Montauk Point Light, or Montauk Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located adjacent to Montauk Point State Park at the easternmost point of Long Island in Montauk, New York. The lighthouse was the first to be built within the state of New York , and was the first public works project of the new United States .
The lighthouse has been described as being "similar to the masonry towers built earlier, (New London Harbor Light, New Haven Harbor (Five Mile Point) Light, and Faulkner's Island Light), but Lynde Point is considered to represent the finest work of the three". [5] The wooden staircase was likely replaced in an 1868 renovation of the light. [5]
This may sound like science fiction, but this is no movie. Dancing ribbons of light, scientifically known as aurora and often called the Northern Lights, are painting the night sky across the U.S ...
Lancaster Sound between Devon Island and Baffin Island in Nunavut; Mackenzie Sound in Broughton Archipelago of the Queen Charlotte Strait region; Massey Sound between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut; Nansen Sound between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut; Newman Sound in Terra Nova National Park ...
The aurora is expected to be bright, active and visible in parts of 17 continental U.S. states on Thursday night, Sept. 12, 2024. ...
The current lighthouse was built and the tower was first lit in 1857. The site is on a bluff 60 feet (18 m) above Long Island Sound. The tower was automated in 1933 and is now operational. The light was deactivated from 1933 to 1990. The foundation is granite and the lighthouse is built out of granite and brick with stucco. A square tower is ...