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Moon Island (Massachusetts) Coordinates: 42°18′20″N 70°59′27″W. Moon Island is an island in Quincy Bay, in the middle of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. It is the location of the Boston Fire Department Training Academy, and Boston Police Department shooting range. All of the land on the island is owned by the City of Boston but the ...
Prior to October 2014, access to the island was via a road over a 4,175-foot (1,273 m) causeway [3] from the Squantum peninsula of North Quincy to Moon Island, and from there, over a 3,050-foot (930 m) two-lane steel bridge [4] – officially named the Long Island Viaduct – from Moon Island to Long Island.
Long Island Bridge. / 42.31°N 70.98°W / 42.31; -70.98. The Long Island Bridge, sometimes referred to as the Long Island Viaduct, was a bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, that connected Long Island to Moon Island. Both islands are located in Boston Harbor and are connected to the mainland via a causeway from Moon Island to Squantum, a ...
Squantum is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, connected to the mainland by a causeway that crosses over a wetland area of the bay. Often thought of as a peninsula, Squantum proper is technically a barrier island as it is surrounded on all four sides by water and is only connected to the mainland and Moon Island via causeways [citation ...
Quincy Public Works Commissioner Al Grazioso said the abandoned sewer line that used to carry sewage to storage vats on Moon Island is encased in a 10.5-by-12-foot brick culvert below Moon Island ...
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park is a combination national recreation area and state park situated among the islands of Boston Harbor. The park is made up of 34 islands and peninsulas [ 2][ 3] and is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. [ 4] Twenty-one of the islands are also included in the Boston Harbor Islands ...
Squantum Point Park. / 42.30000°N 71.03889°W / 42.30000; -71.03889. Squantum Point Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The park was created on the site of the former Squantum Naval Air Station, which is preserved in a 2,700-foot-long (820 m) strip of ...
Quincy Bay. / 42.282; -70.986. Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, [1] [2] part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston Bay. [3] The bay is home to Moon Island, Long Island, and ...