The Shores
Pennsylvania has 57 miles (92 km) of shoreline along the Delaware River estuary but is a landlocked state with no coastline bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The tidal marsh of this estuary has been protected as John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum. Pennsylvania is the only truly landlocked state of the original thirteen states, although Connecticut, located on the Long Island Sound, also has no actual coastline (The difference between coast and shore is explained in the respective articles).
Pennsylvania has one of the largest seaports in the U.S. on its narrow shore, the Port of Philadelphia. In the west the Port of Pittsburgh is also very large and even exceeds Philadelphia in rank by annual tonnage, because of the large volume of bulk coal shipped by barge down the Ohio River. Chester, downstream from Philadelphia, and Erie, the Great Lakes outlet on Lake Erie in the Erie Triangle, are smaller but still important ports.
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Famous quotes containing the word shores:
“Not to these shores she came! this other Thrace,
Environ barbarous to the royal Attic;
How could her delicate dirge run democratic,
Delivered in a cloudless boundless public place
To an inordinate race?”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)