Dorchester Bay (Boston Harbor)

Dorchester Bay
Looking northwest from Quincy toward Boston across Dorchester Bay

Dorchester Bay Dorchester Bay, upper left, and nearby features
Location	Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°18′50″N 71°1′33″W / 42.31389°N 71.02583°W / 42.31389; -71.02583

Dorchester Bay is the smallest of the three smaller bays of southern Boston Harbor,^[1]^[2] part of Massachusetts Bay and forming the south shoreline of the South Boston neighborhood and northeast shoreline of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, as well as the north shore of the city of Quincy in Massachusetts.^[3]

The bay is home to Thompson Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands. The Neponset River empties into Dorchester Bay between south Dorchester and Squantum Point Park in Quincy. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is located on the west shore of the bay at the end of the Columbia Point peninsula. Day Boulevard, one of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation parkways and part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, travels 2.6 miles (4.2 km) along the northern shore of Dorchester Bay,^[4] offering panoramic views of the bay and islands.

The waters of Dorchester Bay include Pleasure Bay, Old Harbor, Western Way, Squantum Channel, Savin Hill Cove, and Dorchester Bay Basin.

References

^ "Through the Eyes of a Mariner: Touring the Port of Boston". Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2006.
^ "The Boston Harbor Association". Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
^ "Boston Harbor and Approaches." Coast Pilot 1 - 39th Edition, 2009. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. 39th Edition. September, 2009.
^ "Datalayers/GIS Database". Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs. Retrieved 2009-07-16.

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Bays	Buzzards Bay Cape Cod Bay Dorchester Bay Duxbury Bay Hingham Bay Massachusetts Bay Mount Hope Bay Nahant Bay Narragansett Bay Plymouth Bay Popponesset Bay Quincy Bay Waquoit Bay
Channels	Broad Sound North Entrance Channel Canapitsit Channel Fort Point Channel Hypocrite Channel Salem Channel South Channel
Coves	Cat Cove Juniper Cove Orleans Cove Warren Cove
Harbors	Barnstable Harbor Boston Harbor East Harbor Hyannis Harbor Marblehead Harbor Plymouth Harbor Port of New Bedford Provincetown Harbor Rock Harbor Salem Harbor
River mouths	Annisquam River Back River Blackwater River Bass River Eagle Hill River Egypt River Fore River Ipswich River Jericho Creek Merrimack River Mitchell River Oyster Pond River Quashnet River Roger Island River Rowley River Skug River Tiasquam River Weir River
Sounds	Broad Sound Nantucket Sound Vineyard Sound
Straits	Quick's Hole Robinson's Hole Woods Hole

v t e University of Massachusetts Boston
Campus	Bayside Expo Center Boston Harbor/Dorchester Bay Boston Harborwalk Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex Dorchester Columbia Point Savin Hill Dorchester Shores Reservation Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate JFK/UMass station John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum Monan Park Morrissey Boulevard
Chancellors	John W. Ryan (1965–1968) Francis L. Broderick (1968–1972) Carlo L. Golino (1973–1978) Claire Van Ummersen (1978–1979) Robert A. Corrigan (1979–1988) Sherry A. Penney (1988–1995) Jean F. MacCormack (1995–1996) Sherry A. Penney (1996–2000) David MacKenzie (2001) Jo Ann M. Gora (2001–2004) J. Keith Motley (2004–2005) Michael F. Collins (2005–2007) J. Keith Motley (2007–2017) Barry Mills (2017–2018) Katherine Newman (2018–2020) Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (2020–)
Miscellaneous	Boston State College John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies The New England Quarterly Park Square Armory of the First Corps of Cadets Boston Park Plaza WUMB-FM
Italics indicates interim chancellor

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