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Altamaha

American  
[awl-tuh-muh-haw] / ˈɔl tə məˌhɔ /

noun

  1. a river in SE Georgia, formed by the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers and flowing to the Atlantic Ocean. 137 miles (220 km) long.


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Bartram's and Altamaha bass are native to flowing river systems, where they typically inhabit pools and fast-moving areas near rocky shoals.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026

Tropical storm warnings are in place for other parts of the Florida coast, all the way to Altamaha Sound, Georgia.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

CSX officials had twice sent production managers emails denying them permission to shoot on the railroad bridge spanning the Altamaha River.

From Fox News ● Oct. 27, 2021

“It’s terrible,” Fletcher Sams, executive director of the Altamaha Riverkeeper conservation group, said as he strolled the beach Monday.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021

And they that stood behind, that morning in Altamaha, and watched the train as it noisily bore playmate and brother and son away to the world, had thereafter one ever-recurring word,—"When John comes."

From The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

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