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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Rivers of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, New Silver Beach, Pine Hill, Buzzards Bay, Coonamesset River, Pamet River, Cape Cod Bay, Billingsgate Island, Follins Pond, Monomoy Island, Bass River, Popponesset Bay, Nantucket Sound, Quashnet River, Marconi Beach, Great Herring Pond, Pocasset River, Bassetts Island, Mashpee and Wakeby Ponds, Sampson's Island, Doane Rock, Back River, Childs River, Waquoit Bay, Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Santuit River, Washburn Island, Massachusetts, Oyster Pond River, Dennis Beaches, Amrita Island, Mashpee River, Craigville Beach, Barnstable, Holly Marsh, Brewster Flats, Popponesset Creek, Popponesset Peninsula, Little Pamet River, Mitchell River, Monument Beach, Attaquin Beach, Bumps River. Excerpt: Map of Massachusetts, with Cape Cod (Barnstable County) indicated in red Dunes on Sandy Neck are part of the Cape's barrier beach which helps to prevent erosionCape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County. Several small islands right off Cape Cod, including Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island, and Seconsett Island, are also in Barnstable County, being part of municipalities with land on the Cape. The Cape's historic and maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. Cape Cod was formed as the terminal moraine of a glacier, resulting in a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1914, the Cape Cod Canal was cut through the base or isthmus of the peninsula, forming what may loosely described as an island. The Cape Cod Commission refers to the resultant landmass as an island; as does the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in regards to disaster prepa...
