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Raritan Bay
Raritan Bay
is a
bay
located at the southern portion of
Lower New York Bay
between the
U.S. states
of
New York
and
New Jersey
and is part of the
New York Bight
. The bay is bounded on the northwest by New York's
Staten Island
, on the west by
Perth Amboy, New Jersey
, on the south by the
Raritan Bayshore
communities of
Monmouth County, New Jersey
, and on the east by
Sandy Hook Bay
. The bay is named after the
Raritan
s, a branch of the
Lenape
tribe who lived in the vicinity of the bay for thousands of years prior to the arrival of
Dutch
colonists in the 17th century.
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