Outer Lands

For the historical Frisian term, see Uthlande.

40°48′N 73°18′W / 40.8°N 73.3°W / 40.8; -73.3

The "Outer Lands" coloured in green.

The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, the Elizabeth Islands, Block Island, and Long Island, as well as surrounding islands and islets.

Though the existence of an arc or chain of islands[1][2] in this archipelago is widely acknowledged by geographers, it is rarely given a specific name; occasionally a descriptive term such as southern New England islands[3][4][5][6] or a technical term such as Cape Cod/Long Island ecoregion[7] or Long Island–Cape Cod Coastal Lowland[8] is used. The Isles of Stirling was the name granted in 1635 when the islands came into the possession of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling. "Outer Lands" is a term popularized by author Dorothy Sterling in her 1967 natural history guide of the same name,[9] and used by later natural history authors such as Patrick J. Lynch.[10]

  1. ^ Wetherell, W. D. (1995). The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: Northern New England--Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Smithsonian Books. p. 8. ISBN 9780679761532.
  2. ^ Strahler, Arthur N. (1988). A Geologist's View of Cape Cod. Parnassus Imprint. p. 7. ISBN 9780940160392.
  3. ^ Geological Survey Research 1964. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964. pp. C134.
  4. ^ Caldwell, Donald H. (1986). The Wisconsinan Stage of the First Geological District, Eastern New York. University of the State of New York, State Education Department. p. 6. ISBN 9781555570019.
  5. ^ The Indian Use of Block Island Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1676, National Register Nomination. Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission. 1990. p. 3.
  6. ^ Aber, James S.; Ber, Andrzej (2007-03-28). Glaciotectonism. Elsevier. p. 1. ISBN 9780080556277.
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  9. ^ Sterling, Dorothy (1967). The outer lands: a natural history guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island. Garden City, New York: Natural History Press. LCCN 67011253.
  10. ^ "Field Guide to Cape Cod | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-17.