On the grand scale, the upper ocean circulates in the Southeast Asian Seas as follows: the water flows from the Pacific to the South China, Celebes, and Halmahera Seas; makes its way from there to the Java, Flores, and Banda Seas; and exits into the Indian Ocean mostly via the Lombok...
National Road, first federal highway in the United States and for several years the main route to what was then the Northwest Territory. Built (1811–37) from Cumberland, Maryland (western terminus of a state road from Baltimore and of the Chesapeake and
Chesapeake Bay, largest inlet in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States. Created by the submergence of the lower courses of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, it is 193 miles (311 km) long and 3 to 25 miles (5 to 40 km) wide.
Susquehanna River, one of the longest rivers of theEastern Seaboardof theUnited States. It rises in Otsego Lake, central New York state, and winds through theAppalachian PlateauinNew York,Pennsylvania, andMarylandbefore flowing into the head ofChesapeake Bayat Havre de Grace, Maryland. About 444 ...
withChesapeake Bay. TheInterstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin (Incodel) was formed in 1936 by the four states in thewatershedof the river (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) to control and preventwater pollution, plan the conservation ofwater supplyfor the use of the...
withChesapeake Bay. TheInterstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin (Incodel) was formed in 1936 by the four states in thewatershedof the river (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) to control and preventwater pollution, plan the conservation ofwater supplyfor the use of the...
Baltimoreis the chief port on the upper (northern) portion of the bay. TheChesapeake and Delaware Canalconnects the head of the bay with theDelaware Riverestuary. The port group ofHampton Roads, aroundNorfolk, Virginia, at the mouth of theJames River, exports coal and tobacco. An important ...