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Boston Harbor

Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of , located adjacent to , Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the .
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: estuary and harbor of Massachusetts Bay in the northeastern United States
  • Also known as: “Baye de Baston”, “Port de Boston”, and “Porto di Boston”
  • Address: MA

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deer Island Light and Long Island Head Light.

Lighthouse
Photo: RadioTheodric, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a lighthouse in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts. The actual light is 53 feet above Mean High Water. Its alternating white and red light is visible for 9 nautical miles.

Lighthouse
is an historic lighthouse on in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts. The current brick tower is the fourth lighthouse on the island.

Fort
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is a former U.S. Army Coast Artillery fort that occupied the northern third of in the Boston Harbor. The island had a training camp during the American Civil War, and a gun battery was built there in the 1870s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winthrop and Fort Warren.

Photo: Sean 2015, Public domain.
is a city in , United States. The population was 19,316 at the 2020 census. is an ocean-side suburban town in situated at the north entrance to the Boston Harbor, geographically nearby to the .

Hamlet
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
is a historic fort on the 28-acre at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is named for Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren, who sent Paul Revere on his famous ride, and was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Boston Harbor

Latitude
42.34177° or 42° 20′ 30″ north
Longitude
-70.96616° or 70° 57′ 58″ west
Open location code
87JF82RM+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368984462
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
4930983
Wiki­data ID
Q894564
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Venetian—“Boston Harbor” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Бостанская бухта”
  • Catalan: “Boston Harbor”
  • Cebuano: “Boston Harbor”
  • Chinese: “波士頓港”
  • Chinese: “波士頓灣”
  • Chinese: “波士顿港”
  • Dutch: “Boston Harbor”
  • Estonian: “Bostoni sadamaala”
  • French: “Boston Harbor”
  • German: “Boston Harbor”
  • Irish: “Cuan Bhostúin”
  • Japanese: “ボストンハーバー”
  • Japanese: “ボストン港”
  • Japanese: “ボストン港湾”
  • Japanese: “ボストン湾”
  • Korean: “보스턴 항”
  • Korean: “보스턴항”
  • Polish: “Boston Harbor”
  • Portuguese: “Boston Harbor”
  • Russian: “Бостон-Харбор”
  • Russian: “Бостонская бухта”
  • Russian: “Бостонская гавань”
  • Slovenian: “Boston Harbor”
  • Swedish: “Boston Harbor”
  • Ukrainian: “Бостонська бухта”
  • Venetian: “Boston Harbor”
  • “Boston Harbor”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant and Battery Drum.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boston Harbor”. Photo: Richard Schneider, CC BY 2.0.