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    Rhode Island Sound is a marine sound off the coast of the U.S. state of Rhode Island at the mouth of Narragansett Bay. It forms the eastern extension of...
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    Fishers Island, all in the state of New York. Geographically, Block Island Sound extends west to Long Island Sound and east to Rhode Island Sound. Three...
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    the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, on the western side of Narragansett Bay where it opens out onto Rhode Island Sound. It is the location for the...
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    its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest...
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    Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 14,532 at the 2020 census. However, during the summer months...
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    the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering 147 square miles (380 km2), 120.5 square miles (312 km2) of which is in Rhode Island. The bay forms New...
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  • Thumbnail for 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash
    intended route was along the coastline of Connecticut and across Rhode Island Sound to Martha's Vineyard Airport. The official investigation by the National...
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    Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago, located approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of mainland Rhode Island and 14 miles (23 km)...
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  • town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The population was 154 at the 2010 census. It sits at the most-southwestern point in Rhode Island. It came to prominence...
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    States. To the west, it joins Rhode Island Sound, and on its eastern end it connects to Nantucket Sound. Vineyard Sound holds some of the largest summer...
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    The Battle of Rhode Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command...
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    Miramar (mansion) (category Houses in Newport, Rhode Island)
    000 m2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound, it was intended as a summer home for the George...
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    Westerly, Rhode Island. The route is about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) long and begins at Connecticut Route 2 in Stonington, crossing into Rhode Island at the Pawcatuck...
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    County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 31,931 at the 2020 census. South Kingstown is the second largest town in Rhode Island by total...
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  • The Miss Rhode Island competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Rhode Island in the Miss America pageant. Caroline Parente...
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    Goat Island is a small island in Narragansett Bay and is part of the city of Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. The island is connected to the Easton's Point...
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    Buzzards Bay Narragansett Bay Rhode Island Sound Block Island Sound Fishers Island Sound Long Island Sound Shelter Island Sound Noyack Bay Peconic Bay Gardiners...
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    Bristol is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, as well as the county seat. The population of Bristol was 22,493 at the 2020 census....
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  • William Sound in Alaska Puget Sound in Washington Rhode Island Sound off Rhode Island Roanoke Sound in North Carolina St. Catherine's Sound in Liberty...
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  • The Block Island Sound is a 2020 American science fiction horror thriller film written and directed by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus and starring Chris...
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    Rhode Island is one of the five general state officers directly elected by the voters and serves as the custodian of state funds for the Rhode Island...
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    maturity is greater for populations at higher latitudes. A study in Rhode Island Sound found a discrete molting season in June for smaller (carapace width...
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    Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and...
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    1869, the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on Goat Island, the site of Fort Wolcott which was built in 1702 and served...
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    Little Compton is a coastal town in Newport County, Rhode Island, bounded on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Sakonnet River, on the...
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    Kingstown, just east of the University of Rhode Island. In between, Route 108 connects to the Block Island Sound community of Galilee and passes through...
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    Sakonnet River (category Rivers of Newport County, Rhode Island)
    state of Rhode Island which flows approximately 14 miles (23 km) between Mount Hope Bay and Rhode Island Sound. It separates Aquidneck Island from the...
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  • Narragansett, Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Sound Narragansett Country, former name of what is now Washington County, Rhode Island Buxton, Maine...
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    Dutch Island is an island lying west of Conanicut Island at an entrance to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, United States. It is part of the town of...
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  • Thumbnail for The Station nightclub fire
    The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert...
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