Quincy Bay
Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Massachusetts, USA
- Also known as: “Braintree Bay” and “Brantree Bay”
- Address: MA
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hangman Island and Moon Island.
Hangman Island
Island
Hangman Island, also known as Hayman's Island, is an island in the Quincy Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island is a barren outcrop of bedrock, with a permanent size of half an acre rising to only three feet above sea level, plus an intertidal zone of a further 5 acres.
Moon Island
Park
Moon Island is an island in Quincy Bay, in the middle of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States. It is the location of the Boston Fire Department Training Academy, and Boston Police Department shooting range.
Peddocks Island
Park
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peddocks Island is one of the largest islands in Boston Harbor. Since 1996 it has formed part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the island is home to the now-defunct Fort Andrews…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adams Shore and Germantown.
Adams Shore
Hamlet
Adams Shore is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is located on the shore of Quincy Bay at the entrance to the Hough's Neck peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Quincy Bay, on the east by the Hough's Neck neighborhood, on the south by Town River Bay and on the west by the Merrymount neighborhood.
Germantown
Hamlet
Germantown is a primarily residential neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. The neighborhood is located on a peninsula surrounded by Town River bay on the west and Rock Island Cove on the east.
North Quincy
Suburb
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston.
Quincy Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.29177° or 42° 17′ 30″ northLongitude
-70.97449° or 70° 58′ 28″ westOpen location code
87JF72RG+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 368985209OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
4948249Wikidata ID
Q7272118
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to German—“Quincy Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Quincy Bay”
- German: “Quincy Bay”
- “Quincy Bay”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hangman Island and Wreck Rock.
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