3-625: The Mid-Atlantic Bight is a coastal region running from Massachusetts to North Carolina . It contains the New York Bight . It is separated from the South Atlantic Bight by Cape Hatteras to the south and the Gulf of Maine to the north by Cape Cod . This article about a specific United States location is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a specific oceanic location or ocean current
6-592: A bight as a bay that could be sailed out of on a single tack in a square-rigged sailing vessel, regardless of the direction of the wind (typically meaning the apex of the bight is less than 25 degrees from the edges). According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , an indentation with an area as large as (or larger than) that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across
9-466: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bight (geography) In geography , a bight ( / b aɪ t / ) is a concave bend or curvature in a coastline , river or other geographical feature, or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature. Such bays are typically broad, open, shallow and only slightly recessed. Bights are distinguished from sounds , in that sounds are much deeper. Traditionally, explorers defined
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