Rhillai (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rhillai) wrote,@ 2009-07-14 12:30:00 |
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The Island of New England
Huh. I never knew that New England was actually cut off from the rest of the mainland US by water. Weird. Orny just posted about his trip to go flying in a biplane (I'm jealous, Orn!) and I looked at his GPS map. I wondered just where he was and was surprised that he went all the way to NY.
So, the water nearby caught my attention. It looked like a decent sized river. Checking it out, I noticed that it goes all the way south to the New York Bay area. Looking North, I noticed it goes all the way to Albany, but I was zoomed too far out on the map to tell anything else. I glanced north of Albany to see Lake Champlain and the waterways there, which go all the way up to the Ocean. I zoomed in and saw that there is a waterway that goes from Lake Champlain and connects to the one in Albany.
All of our New England states and parts of New York are surrounded by water. So, it's the Island of New England. :) Cool!
Just traced a waterway from Lake Michigan in Chicago unbroken to St. Louis, Mo. which then goes south to New Orleans and the gulf. Since the Great Lakes are connected, the waterway goes from northeastern Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, splitting the US in half.
Huh. I never knew that New England was actually cut off from the rest of the mainland US by water. Weird. Orny just posted about his trip to go flying in a biplane (I'm jealous, Orn!) and I looked at his GPS map. I wondered just where he was and was surprised that he went all the way to NY.
So, the water nearby caught my attention. It looked like a decent sized river. Checking it out, I noticed that it goes all the way south to the New York Bay area. Looking North, I noticed it goes all the way to Albany, but I was zoomed too far out on the map to tell anything else. I glanced north of Albany to see Lake Champlain and the waterways there, which go all the way up to the Ocean. I zoomed in and saw that there is a waterway that goes from Lake Champlain and connects to the one in Albany.
All of our New England states and parts of New York are surrounded by water. So, it's the Island of New England. :) Cool!
Just traced a waterway from Lake Michigan in Chicago unbroken to St. Louis, Mo. which then goes south to New Orleans and the gulf. Since the Great Lakes are connected, the waterway goes from northeastern Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, splitting the US in half.
