Little Egg Harbor (N.J.)

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Name (Latin)
Little Egg Harbor (N.J.)
Coordinates
-74.27292 -74.27292 39.59012 39.59012 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Harbors New Jersey
Inlets New Jersey
MARC
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Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q6649887
Library of congress: sh 85077684

Wikipedia description:

Little Egg Harbor is a brackish bay along the coast of southeast New Jersey. It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway. The historical spelling for the bay is "Little Egg Harbour" as found on maps provide by Rutgers University: 1706, 1775, 1777, 1784, 1795, 1826, and 1834.

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