New York Bight

A colorized depiction of the Hudson Canyon and the New York Bight area

The New York/New Jersey Bight is the geological identification applied to a roughly triangular indentation, regarded as a bight, along the Atlantic coast of the United States that extends northeasterly from Cape May Inlet in New Jersey to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island. As the result of direct contact with the Gulf Stream along the coast of North America, the coastal climate of the bight area is temperate.[1]

  1. ^ "U.S. Geological Survey Studies in the New York Bight". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved August 19, 2011.

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