How far are you from the nearest body of salt water? (home, live in)

[pch1013]

By which I mean the ocean or any inlet thereof -- seas, bays, straits, sounds, etc., plus the Caspian Sea if we have any readers from Azerbaijan, southern Russia, Iran, etc. But not counting the Great Salt Lake or similar smaller salt lakes.

I'll go first:

At this precise moment I am 1027 feet / 313 m from San Francisco Bay.

My home is 3.07 miles / 4.94 km from the Bay.

Next!

(You can use the distance measurement tool in Google Maps - click "Maps Labs" to enable the tool.)

[Joe90]

About 1.5 km/1 mile. I can see about 90 km of coastline. The tide is in at present.

[Davy-040]

North Sea (Atlantic Ocean) about 140 km West by road.

[BigCityDreamer]

I live in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. that is 35 miles from the Chesapeake Bay. It's brackish water - both salt water and fresh water.

The Atlantic Ocean is about 125 miles from where I am.

[Ariete]

Around 660km/410mi from the North Sea (Skagerrak), and around 3km/1.8mi from the nearest body with brackish water.

[lucknow]

I think the nearest would be NY city. It's 660 km from here.

[Acajack]

I am in southwestern Quebec on the border with Ontario. The closest point of the Atlantic Ocean to me is 650 km away approximately at the border between New Hampshire and Maine.

There is brackish water about 450 away from me east of Quebec City, which is fairly far inland if you look at it on a map. The St Lawrence River actually begins to be brackish at Île d'Orléans just east of the city, and is completely salty at Tadoussac about 200 km further east.

[theunbrainwashed]

140 miles to the open Atlantic. Chesapeake Bay is nearby but that doesn't count

[Ameriscot]

30 metres from a sea loch which flows out into the Atlantic.

[North Beach Person]

600 feet. Chesapeake Bay. Waterview from front yard.