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A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Relationships alternated between peace and armed skirmishes between colonists and local Native American tribes, the bloodiest of which was the Pequot War in 1637 which resulted in the Mystic massacre. [22]
A beach on the coast of Massachusetts on a foggy early spring day. This is a list of beaches in New England sorted by state then town. Beaches are not exclusively all on seashores but may also be located on lakes, rivers or other bodies of water.
* New York has both ocean and Great Lakes coastline. This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline.
The narrowest definitions include only the states of New England. [72] Other more restrictive definitions include New England and New York as part of the Northeast United States, but exclude Pennsylvania and New Jersey. [73] [74] States beyond the Census Bureau definition are included in Northeast Region by various other entities:
The "Outer Lands" coloured in green. The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, the Elizabeth Islands, Block Island, and Long Island, as well as ...
In geology, the New England Seaboard (Lowland) is a physiographic section of the New England province. It includes a thin section of coastal Connecticut , most of Rhode Island , and roughly the coastal counties of Massachusetts , New Hampshire , and Maine .
The New England Seamounts is a chain of over twenty underwater extinct volcanic mountains known as seamounts. [1] This chain is located off the coast of Massachusetts in the Atlantic Ocean and extends over 1,000 kilometers (600 mi) from the edge of Georges Bank. Many of the peaks of these mountains rise over 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) from the ...
The East Coast, with the exception of eastern Maine, is a low-relief, passive margin coast. [8] It has been shaped by the Pleistocene glaciation in the far northern areas in New England, with offshore islands such as Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and Fishers Island.