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River Islands at Lathrop. Coordinates: 37.7902°N 121.3119°W. River Islands at Lathrop is a planned community on a 4,800-acre (7.5 sq mi; 1,900 ha) site in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Lathrop, California, United States. [1] As of 2018, approximately 800 homes of the first-phase of 4,284 houses had been built.
Petty Island. Coordinates: 39°57′53″N 75°06′11″W. Petty Island in the Delaware River. Petty Island (also Pettys Island; [1] or Petty's Island) is a 292-acre (1.18 km 2) [2] island located in the Delaware River, which forms the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the United States. The island is situated between the cities of ...
The Providence River is a tidal river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 8 miles (13 km). There are no dams along the river's length, although the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is located south of downtown to protect the city of Providence from damaging tidal floods. The southern part of the river has been dredged at a cost ...
A river island is any exposed landmass surrounded by river water. Properly defined, it excludes shoals between seasonally varying flows and may exclude semi-coastal islands in river deltas such as Marajó . These islands result from changes in the course of a river. Such changes may be caused by interactions with a tributary, or by the opposing ...
Read's Island is an island situated just outside the Ancholme sluice, on the Humber Estuary in England. The Lincolnshire Trust suggest it is an artificial island, [1] and a report from 1979 says that it was reclaimed. [2] However, the site was for many years a large sandbank going by the name of "Old Warp" [3] and is shown on the 1734 Customs ...
Sun Publishing's four weeklies include three covering Rhode Island towns, based in the Westerly headquarters—the Charlestown Press, Westerly Pawcatuck Press and Wood River Press—and one Connecticut publication, the Mystic River Press, based at 15 Holmes Street, Mystic, Connecticut: Charlestown Press.
The Fall River Line Pier, located directly beneath the Braga Bridge, is a major port for commercial fishing and cargo shipping, handling imports from and to Cape Verde, the Azores, Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. A water taxi service began in 2024, connecting the pier to several points throughout the city's waterfront.
Ostriv Velykyi Potomkin is located within the Dnipro River as a river island. Two small lakes known as Lake Zakitne and Lake Nazarove-Pohorile are contained within the island. [3] The island is divided into two parts by the Strait of Pudov (Ukrainian: Пудова Протока, romanized: Pudova Protoka ), which flows through its center. [4]