Cape Cod Bay

Cape Cod Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the Massachusetts Bay. It forms a part of the coast of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is bounded by Cape Cod and on the west by Plymouth County ( Massachusetts ) in the south and east. In the north of the Cape Cod Bay turns into Massachusetts Bay and the open ocean. Cape Cod Bay is the southernmost part of the Gulf of Maine. Several occasions they will also not be construed as a separate bay, but the Massachusetts Bay attributed.

The flow in the bay moves generally under the influence of the Massachusetts Bay counterclockwise from Boston to south across Plymouth, then east toward Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod These hook- shaped peninsula is composed of glacial sands and projects 105 km into the Atlantic Ocean. Its width varies from 1.6 to 32 km.

The current post-glacial period began about 11,000 years ago. At the beginning of this period the Cape Cod Bay, a large freshwater lake with outflow at Cape Cod was probably He fed probably the Bass River and Orleans Harbor. Since 1914, the Cape Cod Bay is connected through the Cape Cod Canal with the Buzzards Bay. This Cape Cod has been separated from the mainland of the State of Massachusetts.

41.910045 - 70.288239Koordinaten: 41 ° 55 ' N, 70 ° 17' W

• Bay in the United States
• Bay in North America
• Bay (Atlantic Ocean )
• Mud flat
• Geography (Massachusetts )