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About 18,000 years ago, Connecticut, Long Island Sound, and much of Long Island were covered by a thick sheet of ice, part of the Late Wisconsin Glacier. About 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in its interior and about 1,300 to 1,600 feet (400 to 500 m) thick along its southern edge, it was the most recent of a series of glaciations that covered the ...
In the 1920s, the bay began to switch from the cow-and-fish industry to support services for commercial boating, [3] as it is considered to be one of the best harbors on Long Island Sound with little tidal current except at the entrance and average tidal displacement of only six feet. [4] By the 1980s it was full of marinas and yacht clubs.
Long Island Sound at night, with nearby settlements marked. The Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island Sound east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. The project has been studied and debated since the mid-20th century.
Long Island Sound in the New York metropolitan area, seen from space at night. Along the east coast and Gulf Coast of the United States, a number of bodies of water that separate islands from the mainland are called "sounds". Long Island Sound separates Long Island from the eastern shores of the Bronx, Westchester County, and southern Connecticut.
Ziegler's Cove is a sheltered haven located on the north shore of Long Island Sound at Darien, Connecticut. [1] Its coordinates are 41°03′04″N 73°28′17″W / 41.05112°N 73.47128°W / 41.05112; -73.47128 The cove is protected to the south by Hay Island (a small peninsula), to the west by Coon Point and Long Neck Point and ...
Sound View Avenue leads to Goldsmith's Inlet County Park, Peconic Dunes County Park, Horton Point Light and Hashamomuck Beach. Between Hashamomuck Pond and Greenport West, a section of Middle Road near a motel with the Long Island Sound in the back yard is still paved with concrete, as it was commonly done during the late 1920s and early 1930s ...