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What is a What is a Harbor?Harbor?
What is a What is a Harbor?Harbor?
Our planet’s Our planet’s surface is mostly surface is mostly
ocean !ocean !
Our planet’s Our planet’s surface is mostly surface is mostly
ocean !ocean !
Why?Why?Why?Why?
Most of the Most of the world’s people world’s people live near the live near the
ocean!ocean!
Most of the Most of the world’s people world’s people live near the live near the
ocean!ocean!
Harbors connect Harbors connect us to oceansus to oceans.
Harbors connect Harbors connect us to oceansus to oceans.
How?How?How?How?
Atlantic OceanAtlantic Ocean
Boston Boston
HarborHarbor
Arms of land Arms of land
protect the harbor protect the harbor
from the oceanfrom the oceanA safe placeA safe place
to build a cityto build a city
Islands = Shelter
Islands = Protection
Arms of Land
The Harbor The Harbor Created BostonCreated Boston
The Harbor The Harbor Created BostonCreated Boston
The Boston Harbor
when the first
English settlers
arrived, in 1630
Boston Boston Changed Changed the Harborthe Harbor
Boston Boston Changed Changed the Harborthe Harbor
Focus on
the area
inside the
box
1630 - the first
Europeans arrive…
Population:
150 Europeans
1795, as the
new nation
grows, so does
BostonPopulation:
17,959
What is causing
these changes,
natural forces or
people?
1852, Boston
continues to
expand…Population:
148,865
People changed the city
and the harbor
Early 1800’s
Technology
Keep an eye on
South Boston…
Population: 303,839
Advances in
technology
made
transportation
easier…Population:
793,455
What’s
this?
Late 1800s
Technology
Watch Castle
Island…Population:
793,455
Watch Governors
and Apple Islands
Population:
817,713
What happened
here?
Population:
801,444
1996, Boston
Harbor Islands
are designated
as a National
Park Population:
590,000
From 1630 to 1995
_____ years of
change!
365
Harbors Connect us to Harbors Connect us to
Oceans.Oceans.
Harbors Create Cities.Harbors Create Cities.
Cities Change Harbors.Cities Change Harbors.
