Passagassawaukeag River | |
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A moonlight view of the Passagassawaukeag River along the tracks of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad just beyond the old Upper Bridge a little more than a mile inland from Belfast, ME, where it empties into Belfast Bay.
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Country | United States |
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Main source |
Lake Passagassawakeag Maine 308 feet (90 m) |
River mouth |
Belfast Bay sea level 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°WCoordinates: 44°25′48″N 69°00′22″W / 44.430°N 69.006°W |
The Passagassawaukeag River (/pæsəɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ/ pas-uh-gas-uh-WAH-keg or /pəˌsɑːɡæsəˈwɑːkɛɡ/ pa-SAH-ga-suh-WAH-keg) is a 16-mile-long (26 km)river in Waldo County, Maine in the United States. From the outlet of Lake Passagassawakeag (44°30′04″N 69°07′59″W / 44.5012°N 69.13295°W) in Brooks, it runs south and east to its estuary in Belfast, Maine. The river empties into Belfast Bay, an inlet of Penobscot Bay, where it passes under US Route 1.