Bolivar Roads (Texas)
For other uses, see Bolívar (disambiguation)

Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast. The natural waterway inlet has a depth of  with an island to peninsula shoreline width of . The ship canal approach is defined by two jetties extending into the Gulf of Mexico with distances of  from the Bolivar Peninsula and  from Galveston Island. The jetty harbor entrance originated in the 1890s as a preventative structure to inhibit the coastal sediment transport progressions by means of deviations with the continental margin and the Gulf Stream ocean current. The Bolivar Roads channel tailors a nautical navigation gateway for Galveston Bay, Houston Ship Channel, Port of Galveston, and West Bay. See also
Aframax
Bolivar Bridge
Cargo Ship Capacity
List of Panamax ports
Panamax

United States Maritime Environmental Law

Pictorial Biography

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Ports and harbors of Texas
Ship canals
Canals in Texas
Bodies of water of the Gulf of Mexico
Transportation in Galveston County, Texas