Little Egg Harbor is a

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estu ...

bay along the coast of southeast

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

. It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the

Intracoastal Waterway The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following t ...

. The historical spelling for the bay is "Little Egg Harbour" as found on maps provide by Rutgers University: 1706, 1775, 1777, 1784, 1795, 1826, and 1834.

Tributaries

*Tuckerton Creek *

Westecunk Creek Westecunk Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of Little Egg Harbor in southeastern New Jersey in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden ...

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External links

ReClam the Bay
RCTB is a grass roots volunteer non-profit environmental organization which grows and plants millions of clams and oysters in an effort to reclaim Barneget Bay and Little Egg Harbor.
Nautical Chart of Little Egg Harbor

Nutrient Concentrations in Surface Water and Groundwater, and Nitrate Source Identification Using Stable Isotope Analysis in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Watershed, New Jersey, 2010-11
Bays of New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway Bodies of water of Ocean County, New Jersey Long Beach Island {{OceanCountyNJ-geo-stub