Editing Newark Bay (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Bayon Bridge Map.png|thumb|Newark Bay is entered by passing under the [[Bayonne Bridge]]]]
Newark Bay is rectangular, approximately {{convert|5.5|mi}} long, varying in width from {{convert|0.6|to|1.2|mi}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nero.noaa.gov/hcd/EFH%20NB-KLN.pdf |title=US Army Corps of Engineers: Newark Bay |access-date=2010-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528035521/http://www.nero.noaa.gov/hcd/EFH%20NB-KLN.pdf |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is enclosed on the west by the cities of [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] and [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]], and on the east by [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]] and [[Bayonne, New Jersey|Bayonne]]. At the south is [[Staten Island]], New York and at the north [[Kearny Point]] and [[Droyer's Point]] mark the mouth of the Hackensack. [[Shooters Island]] is a [[bird sanctuary]] where the borders of Staten Island, [[Bayonne, New Jersey|Bayonne]] and [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]] meet at one point.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Hagstrom Map Company, Inc| isbn = 978-0-88097-763-0| title = Hudson County New Jersey Street Map| year = 2008}}</ref> The southern tip of [[Bergen Neck]], known as [[Bergen Point]], juts into the bay and lent its name to the former Bergen Point Lighthouse. Built offshore in 1849 it was demolished and replaced with a skeletal tower in the mid 20th century.<ref>[http://www.njlhs.org/njlight/bergenpoint.html Bergen Point Lighthouse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409013156/http://www.njlhs.org/njlight/bergenpoint.html |date=2010-04-09 }}, 1849-1949, New Jersey Lighthouse Society.</ref>

The [[Atlantic Ocean]] at [[Sandy Hook, New Jersey|Sandy Hook]] and [[Rockaway Point]] is approximately {{convert|11|mi}} away and reached by tidal [[strait]]s dredged to maintain [[shipping lanes]]. Newark Bay is connected to [[Upper New York Bay]] by the [[Kill Van Kull]] and to [[Raritan Bay]] by the [[Arthur Kill]].  The names of the channels reflect the period of [[New Netherland|Dutch colonialization]]. The area around the bay was called [[Achter Kol, New Netherland|Achter Kol]], which translates as ''behind or beyond the ridge'' and refers to [[Bergen Hill]]. The emergence of the [[Hudson Palisades]] begins on [[Bergen Neck]], the peninsula between the bay and the [[North River (Hudson River)|Hudson River]]. ''[[Kill (body of water)|Kill]]'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] means stream or channel. During the British colonial era the bay was known as ''Cull bay''.<ref>{{Cite journal
 |last=Grabas 
 |first=Joseph A. 
 |title=Land Speculation and Proprietary Beginnings of New Jersey 
 |journal=The Advocate 
 |volume=XVI 
 |issue=4 
 |pages=3, 20, 14 
 |url=http://www.njlta.org/Dec2004.pdf 
 |access-date=April 15, 2010 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120042104/http://www.njlta.org/Dec2004.pdf 
 |archive-date=November 20, 2008 
}}</ref>
Kill van Kull literally translates as ''channel from the ridge''. Arthur Kill is an [[Anglicisation|anglicization]] of ''achter kill'' meaning ''back channel'', which would speak to its location behind Staten Island.

Many of the maritime and distribution facilities along the bay are part of [[Foreign trade zones of the United States|Foreign Trade Zone 49]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.panynj.gov/port/ftz-49.html |title=PANYNJ FTZ 49 |access-date=2010-04-19 |archive-date=2019-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019185322/http://www.panynj.gov/port/ftz-49.html |url-status=live }}</ref>