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Ambrose Channel

American  

noun

  1. a ship channel at the entrance to New York harbor, near Sandy Hook. 7½ miles (12 km) long.


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The Ambrose Lightship and Ambrose Channel are named for him.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014

The view of the city rising to scratch the sky is incredible when sighted from Ambrose Channel at dawn, and the views only improve as you motor north on a slow bell through the Narrows.

From New York Times • May 19, 2011

So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners.

From Time Magazine Archive

A ship equipped with an echo-sounder could pick up the gorge 130 miles out, follow it all the way in to Ambrose Channel.

From Time Magazine Archive

The steamer had now passed Romer Light and Sandy Hook and was through the Ambrose Channel.

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Emerson, Alice B.

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