Nantucket Sound
Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west.[1] Between Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard it is connected to the Vineyard Sound. Ports on Nantucket Sound include Nantucket and Hyannis, Massachusetts.
Nantucket Sound possesses significant marine habitat for a diversity of ecologically and economically important species. "The Sound" has particular significance for several federally protected species of wildlife and a variety of commercially and recreationally valuable fisheries.
The Sound is located at a confluence of the cold Labrador Currents and the warm Gulf Stream. This creates a unique coastal habitat representing the southern range for Northern Atlantic species and the northern range for Mid-Atlantic species. Nantucket Sound has much biological diversity and contains habitats that range from open sea to salt marshes, as well as warm-water beaches on the Cape and Islands coasts. Nantucket Sound is well known for the numerous shoals within its boundaries.[2]
See also
- The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority—providing ferry service in the Sound
- Wind Over Water—A documentary film about the wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound.
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