Passagassawakeag River
Passagassawakeag River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Lake Passagassawakeag |
• location | Maine |
• elevation | 308 feet (90 m) |
Mouth | |
• location | Belfast Bay |
• coordinates | 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°WCoordinates: 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°W |
• elevation | sea level |
The Passagassawakeag River (/pæsəɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ, pəˌsɑː-/) is a 16-mile-long (26 km)[1] river in Waldo County, Maine in the United States. From the outlet of Lake Passagassawakeag (44°30′04″N 69°07′59″W / 44.5012°N 69.13295°W) in Brooks, it runs south and east to its estuary in Belfast, Maine. The river empties into Belfast Bay, an inlet of Penobscot Bay, where it passes under US Route 1.
The waterway's name is of local Native American origin and is believed to mean "a sturgeon's place" or "a place for spearing sturgeon by torchlight."[2]
References[]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011
- ^ Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, Indian Place-Names of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast; Univ of Maine Press; Orono, Maine 1974 (original 1941)
External links[]
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- "Passagassawakeag River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 30 September 1980. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
Categories:
- Penobscot Bay
- Rivers of Waldo County, Maine
- Rivers of Maine
- Maine river stubs