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The Chesapeake Bay is the largest , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , and West Virginia . More than 150 rivers and streams drain into the Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay is about 200 Mile s (300  Km ) long, from the Susquehanna River in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south. At its narrowest point near Annapolis , Maryland, the Bay is 4 miles (6.4 km) wide; at its widest point, near the mouth of the Potomac River , it is 30 miles (50 km) wide. Total shoreline for the Bay and its tributaries is 11,684 miles (18,804 km), and the surface area of the bay and its major tributaries is .

The bay is spanned in two places. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge crosses the bay in Maryland from Sandy Point (near Annapolis ) to Kent Island ; the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia connects Virginia Beach to Cape Charles .

  Journal Time
  Title The Big Freeze
  Date 1977-01-31
  Url http://wwwtimecom/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918620-2,00html