Each year in late November the United States observes the Thanksgiving
holiday, commemorating the harvest festival celebrated by the Plymouth
colonists and the Native Americans who helped them survive the
devastating winter of 1620. Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the
Mayflower Pilgrims landed, is located on the west side of Cape Cod
Bay, shown in this MISR vertical-viewing (nadir) camera image. This
nearly cloud-free picture was acquired on April 13, 2000 during
Terra orbit 1708.
South of the distinctively-shaped Cape Cod are Nantucket Island and
Martha's Vineyard. Further west is Block Island, south of Narragansett
Bay, Rhode Island. Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island,
New York, is visible at the lower left. On the mainland, Providence
and Boston appear as gray patches. Jutting out from the Massachusetts
coastline, northeast of Boston, is Cape Ann, location of the city of
Gloucester, which was settled soon after the Pilgrim's arrival in
Plymouth. Gloucester is the oldest fishing port in the eastern United
States.
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team
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