Sandy hook

Sandy Hook (highlighted in color)

Navigation map, 2004. Sandy Hook, old and new fairways are visible.

Sandy Hook ( Niderl. Sant Hoek ) - a narrow sand bar , protruding into the sea from the coast of New Jersey . Covers the outer part of the New York harbor from the sea. They have the same name: the lighthouse located on the spit and the abandoned polygon of the American army , a part of the harbor covered by it from the sea leading to the fairway .

Spit stretched from north to south. Length about 6 miles . Width no more than 1600 m. The area is 1665 acres (6.74 km²). At various periods, depending on winds and currents, as well as earthworks, alternately had or did not have a connection with the mainland in the south. The northern tip is separated from the island of Long Island by Gateway Strait ( English Gateway ).

The natural fairway of Sandy Hook, leading to New York , runs approximately from east to west, near the tip of the spit. Prior to dredging, it had depths of up to 3½ fath (9.5 m). In the 1840s, a new, straight and wider fairway called the Ambrose Channel , with guaranteed depths of 44 feet (13.4 m), was made in the middle of the strait. Its beginning is equipped with a floating lighthouse . Current depths vary with tides (height 1.5 ÷ 1.8 m). There are both permanent and tidal currents in the strait. ^[one]

Currently, the territory of the spit is a park of national subordination. At the northern tip are the lighthouse, turned into a museum of Fort Hancock, a secondary school called the Marine Science and Technology Academy ( English Marine Academy of Science and Technology, MAST ), Marine Science Laboratory and the Coast Guard post.

The main type of economy is tourism . The ocean side of the spit has several equipped beaches, the inner side is mostly untouched.

Kosa is connected to the mainland of the state of NJ 36 . Part of the road passes along the overpass over the bay. During the tourist season, the Sandy Hook is connected by ferry to Manhattan Island (central New York).