where did the bay get its name from?
A nearby town of Jamaica.
Jamaica Bay
nearby town of Jamaica
where did the barren island get its name from? A group of Lenape Native Americans referred to the archipelago of islands near it by a name alternatively transcribed as "Equandito", "Equendito", or "Equindito", which means "Broken Lands". what is the reason behind the decline of community over there? An effort was made to develop a seaport district, factories and turn the creeks along the coast into canals and part of the island to be used as parkland. are there any plants on the island? Yes, there are fish rendering plants, as well as for fertilizer plants here. where is the island located? On Jamaica Bay describe some things about the environmental conditions on the bay? The salt marshes offer prime habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife, lately there has been a loss of marshland there reasons for which are unclear.
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Jamaica Bay [SEP] Etymology
The name derives from the nearby town of Jamaica, which in turn derives from "Yameco", a corruption of a word for "beaver" in the Lenape language spoken by the Native Americans who lived in the area at the time of first European contact. The liquid "y" sound of English is spelled with a "j" in Dutch, the language of the first people to write about the area; the English conquerors retained this Dutch spelling, but, after repeated reading and speaking of "Jamaica", slowly replaced the liquid sound with the hard "j" of the English pronunciation of the name today. (In the Caribbean, the aboriginal Arawaks named their island "Xaymaca", "land of wood and water", and the "x" spelling in Spanish was in time transformed to the hard "j" of the modern English name, "Jamaica".)