Woods Hole is a passage between the southwest tip of Cape Cod and the Elizabeth Islands, linking Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay through a set of buoyed dredged channels. The tide is semidiurnal, with a mean range of 1.79 ft (0.55 m) at the Woods Hole reference station.
- Type
- Passage
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Setting
- Between the southwest tip of Cape Cod and the Elizabeth Islands, linking Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay through a set of buoyed dredged channels
- Tidal range
- The tide is semidiurnal, with a mean range of 1.79 ft (0.55 m) at the Woods Hole reference station.
- Notable
- Home to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the largest private, non-profit oceanographic research institution in the United States (WHOI).
