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The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a National Marine Sanctuary in the United States located in the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland. [2] It is best known for the "Ghost Fleet," 118 historic shipwrecks in Mallows Bay in the sanctuary's northeast corner which is the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western ...
The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) is a marine science laboratory on the Chesapeake Bay in Solomons, Maryland, and it is the oldest state-supported marine laboratory on the East Coast of the U.S. [1] It was founded in 1925 in a small waterman's shack by Dr. Reginald V. Truitt and is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
The Calvert Marine Museum is a maritime museum located in Solomons, Maryland. The museum has three main themes: [1] regional paleontology, estuarine life of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay, maritime history. William B. Tennison historic boat before overhaul (2003)
Crabbing skiff from Smith Island. During the COVID-19 pandemic the museum opened a digital exhibit to allow the public access to the institution remotely. Island Life: Changing Cultures, Changing Shorelines is a photography exhibition that details the effects climate change are having in and around the Chesapeake Bay. Themes explore rapid ...
The islands are accessible only by boat. Within the WMA is established the Islands of the Potomac Wildland (see Maryland Wildland), consisting of about 82% (676 acres [2.74 km 2]) of the total area. Three of the islands (all in Montgomery County) are open to public hunting: Oxley Island, Mason Island and Maddox Island. [2]
(Reuters) -The state of Maryland on Tuesday filed civil claims against the owner and operator of the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, killing six people and paralyzing ...
Berkley Island) is an island, 1 km long, which marks the north-eastern end of the Swain Islands It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump , 1946–47, and was included in a survey of the Swain Islands in 1957 by Wilkes Station personnel under Carl R. Eklund .