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The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island, with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, from Manhattan Island, and from the Bronx on the North American ...
The batteries were 40, 43, and 44 zinc-and-carbon cells, divided into 23 batteries. Each battery would fire 160 fuses in a divided circuit: eight groups of 20 each. The explosion began shortly after 2:50 p.m. on September 24, 1876. There was no damaging shock in the air, the water, or underground.
Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, [1] is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City.
It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of 10 fathoms 3 feet or 63 ft (19 m) [7] and a maximum depth of 35 fathoms (210 ft; 64 m) [7] [8] Because Erie is the shallowest, it is also the warmest of the Great Lakes, [17] and in 1999 this almost became a problem for two nuclear power plants which require cool lake water to ...
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The Hudson Canyon proper is located about 160 km (99 mi) east of the mouth of the Hudson River off the New Jersey coast. Its walls rise 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) from the canyon floor, making it comparable to the Grand Canyon , whose cliffs are over 1.61 kilometres (1.00 mi) deep and 640 km (400 mi) long.
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