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Shinnecock Inlet is the easternmost of five major inlets [1] connecting bays to the Atlantic Ocean through the narrow 100-mile-long (160 km) Outer Barrier that stretches from New York City to Southampton, New York on the south shore of Long Island. It splits Westhampton Island from the peninsula extending from Southampton Village.
Looking north toward Great Peconic Bay from the Shinnecock Canal. The original Shinnecock Canal was dug in 1892. To alleviate tidal differences of 3 feet (0.91 m) and more between Peconic Bay to the north and Shinnecock Bay, construction of "tide gates" and bulkheading (not a canal lock as exists today [further explanation needed]) began in 1918.
A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where ...
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
Its flow comes from the Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets) The western boundary of Moriches Bay is the Smith Point Bridge ; the eastern boundary is the eastern edge of Quantuck Bay. [ 3 ] This bayside habitat includes the tidal creeks and marshes feeding into Moriches Bay from the Long Island mainland.
Shinnecock Reservation, the tribe's reservation; Mohegan-Pequot language or Shinnecock language, an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Shinnecock; Shinnecock Canal, a canal that cuts across the South Fork of Long Island at Hampton Bays, New York; Shinnecock Inlet, an inlet connecting Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
A Standard port is a port whose tidal predictions are directly given in the Tide tables. [1] Tide predictions for standard ports are based on continuous observation of tide over a period of at least one year. These predictions are given in feet or meters, with respect to the chart datum for average meteorological conditions. [2]
The barrier island was part of Fire Island until a nor'easter in 1931 split the island creating Moriches Inlet. The inlet created a geographic oddity whereby the Town of Brookhaven actually has jurisdiction on land immediately west of West Hampton Dunes although Brookhaven land access to it involves a nearly 20-mile (32 km) drive through the ...