Bay of Fundy. The Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine.
It has an extremely high tidal range. The name is likely a corruption of the French word Fendu, meaning split.
The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 13 metres. Some tides are higher than others, depending on the position of the moon, the sun, and atmospheric conditions.
Tides are semidiurnal, meaning they have two highs and two lows each day with about six hours and 13 minutes between each high and low tide. Because of tidal resonance in the funnel-shaped bay, the tides that flow through the channel are very powerful.
In one 12 hour tidal cycle, about 110,000,000,000 short tons of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period. They are as powerful as 8,000 train engines or 25 million horses. The Annapolis Royal Generating Station a 20 MW tidal power station on the Annapolis River upstream of Annapolis Royal is one of the few tidal generating stations in the world, and the only one in North America. Most of the rivers have a tidal bore, a wave front of the incoming tide that bores its way up a river against its normal flow. Notable ones include those on the Maccan, St. Croix, and Kennetcook rivers. Before the construction of a causeway in 19
It has an extremely high tidal range. The name is likely a corruption of the French word Fendu, meaning split.
The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 13 metres. Some tides are higher than others, depending on the position of the moon, the sun, and atmospheric conditions.
Tides are semidiurnal, meaning they have two highs and two lows each day with about six hours and 13 minutes between each high and low tide. Because of tidal resonance in the funnel-shaped bay, the tides that flow through the channel are very powerful.
In one 12 hour tidal cycle, about 110,000,000,000 short tons of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period. They are as powerful as 8,000 train engines or 25 million horses. The Annapolis Royal Generating Station a 20 MW tidal power station on the Annapolis River upstream of Annapolis Royal is one of the few tidal generating stations in the world, and the only one in North America. Most of the rivers have a tidal bore, a wave front of the incoming tide that bores its way up a river against its normal flow. Notable ones include those on the Maccan, St. Croix, and Kennetcook rivers. Before the construction of a causeway in 19
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