Great Egg Harbor River (N.J.)
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Name (Latin)
Great Egg Harbor River (N.J.)
Coordinates
-74.64972222 -74.64972222 39.30416667 39.30416667 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Rivers New Jersey
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q5599109
Library of congress:
sh 92006352
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs. Great Egg Harbor additions to the wild and scenic rivers system, 1992:t.p. (designate segments of the Great Egg Harbor River, in the state of New Jersey, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system; Great Egg Harbor)
- GNIS, NJ.
- Lippincott:under Great Egg Harbor Bay (Great Egg Harbor River)
- Web. geog.:under Great Egg Harbor Inlet (Great Egg River or Great Egg Harbor River)
Wikipedia description:
The Great Egg Harbor River is a 55.0-mile-long (88.5 km) river in South Jersey. It is one of the major rivers that traverse the largely pristine Pinelands, draining 308 square miles (800 km2) of wetlands into the Atlantic Ocean at Great Egg Harbor, from which it takes its name. Great Egg Harbor (and thus the river) got its name from Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May. In 1614, Mey came upon the inlet to the Great Egg Harbor River. The meadows were so covered with shorebird and waterfowl eggs that he called it "Eyren Haven" (Egg Harbor). Today, the National Park Service considers it one of the top 10 places in North America for birding.
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