Rockaway Inlet
Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean. It separates the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from the Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.- Bay
- Description: strait off Long Island, New York, connecting Jamaica Bay with the Atlantic Ocean
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Rockaway Inlet
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Latitude
40.57873° or 40° 34′ 43″ north
Longitude
-73.92361° or 73° 55′ 25″ west
Open location code
87G8H3HG+FH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = bay
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Rockaway Inlet” goes by many names.
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