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Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine
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About Gulf of Maine

The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America. It is bounded by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and by Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast. The gulf includes the entire coastlines of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine, as well as Massachusetts north of Cape Cod, and the southern and western coastlines of the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, respectively.

On the show โ€” 3 mentions total

In the 1950s, loads of messages in bottles were put in the Gulf of Maine, and all the maps we have of all the different ocean currents there are basically based on where everyone picked all those messages up.

from 235: No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders, 2018-09-21 at 00:08:58 ยท read transcript

Other times Gulf of Maine came up

  1. There's been a recent experiment, a small scale one called Loch Ness, which took place where? That's right. The Gulf of Maine. You can imagine my disappointment when I discovered your factors about the locking ocean carbon in the northeast shelf and slope project. They tried it.

    No Such Thing As A Pastronaut, 2026-05-28 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 43.0000, -68.0000

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