Cape May Canal
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The Cape May Canal is a waterway that stretches nearly three miles from Cape May Harbor to the Delaware Bay, at the southern tip of Cape May County, New Jersey. The canal was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II to provide a protected route to avoid German U-boats operating off Cape May Point and to become part of the Intracoastal Waterway. The canal was dredged as a wartime emergency measure in 1942 and was the final link in a protected waterway intended to allow coastal shipping to travel along the coast with a greatly reduced risk of attack from German submarines.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_May_Canal
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Coordinates: 38°57'36"N 74°56'3"W
- Great Sound 21 km
- Union Lake, Millville New Jersey 54 km
- Silver Lake 58 km
- Main Feed Reservoir Atlantic City 63 km
- Delaware Bay 76 km
- Atsion Lake and the Atsion Recreation Area of Wharton State Forest 89 km
- Lums Pond State Park 97 km
- D.O.D. Lakes 99 km
- Churchman's Marsh 102 km
- Hoopes Reservoir 111 km
- North Cape May, New Jersey 2.6 km
- Lower Township, New Jersey 3.9 km
- Villas, New Jersey 6.2 km
- Rio Grande, New Jersey 7.7 km
- Middle Township, New Jersey 17 km
- Cape May County, New Jersey 24 km
- Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge 30 km
- Broadkiln Hundred 38 km
- Cedar Creek Hundred 40 km
- Sussex County, Delaware 48 km