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| Passagassawakeag River | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Maine |
| Mouth | Belfast Bay 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°WCoordinates: 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°W |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Source elevation | 315 feet (100 m) |
| Mouth elevation | sea level |
The Passagassawakeag River (pas-uh-gas-uh-WAH-keg; pa-SAH-ga-suh-WAH-keg[1]) is a 16-mile-long (26 km)[2] river in Waldo County, Maine in the United States. From the outlet of Lake Passagassawakeag (44°30′04″N 69°07′59″W / 44.5012°N 69.13295°W) in Brooks, it runs south and east to its estuary in Belfast, Maine. The river empties into Belfast Bay, an inlet of Penobscot Bay, where it passes under US Route 1.
The waterway's name is of local Indian origin and is believed to mean "a sturgeon's place" or "a place for spearing sturgeon by torchlight." [3] Penobscot is also an Indian name which is said to mean "place of ghosts."[4]
Locals refer to the river as the "Passy," or humorously, the "Passy gassy rum keg."
[edit] References
- ^ IPA: /pæsəɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ/, /pəˌsɑːɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ/
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011
- ^ Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, Indian Place-Names of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast; Univ of Maine Press; Orono, Maine 1974 (original 1941)
- ^ Joseph Williamson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine; Loring, Short & Harmon, publishers; Portland, Maine 1877
[edit] External links
- "Passagassawakeag River". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. 30 September 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:573042. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
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