| Passagassawakeag River | |
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 A moonlight view of the Passagassawakeag River along the tracks of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad just beyond the old Upper Bridge a little more than a mile inland from Belfast, ME, where it empties into Belfast Bay. | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Passagassawakeag |
| • location | Maine |
| • elevation | 308 feet (90 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Belfast Bay |
• coordinates | 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°W |
• elevation | sea level |
The Passagassawakeag River (/pæsəɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ, pəˌsɑː-/) is a 16-mile-long (26 km)[1] river in Waldo County, Maine in the United States. From the outlet of Lake Passagassawakeag (44°30′04″N 69°07′59″W / 44.5012°N 69.13295°W) in Brooks, it runs south and east to its estuary in Belfast, Maine. The river empties into Belfast Bay, an inlet of Penobscot Bay, where it passes under US Route 1.
The waterway's name is of local Native American origin and is believed to mean "a sturgeon's place" or "a place for spearing sturgeon by torchlight."[2]
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011
- ^ Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, Indian Place-Names of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast; Univ of Maine Press; Orono, Maine 1974 (original 1941)