Ceramic Mug - Chesapeake Bay Map

Chesapeake Bay Mugs are designed around the exquisite mapart by Xplorer Maps co-founder and illustrator Chris Robitaille. These ceramic, BPA-Free Mugs hold 16oz of your favorite brew. These are perfect gifts for national park lovers, map connoisseurs and anyone whos ever visited these incredible places.

• 16oz. Capacity
• High Quality Ceramic Construction
• BPA-Free
• Feature an original Xplorer Maps Artwork Inlay
• Designed in the USA
• Due to high quality graphics, dishwasher and microwave use is NOT recommended

Chesapeake Bay

Original, hand-drawn story map and accompanying gifts of Chesapeake Bayby renowned Illustrator and Xplorer Maps Co-Founder, Chris Robitaille.

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary (where salt and freshwater mix) in the United States (and 3rd largest in the world!) with 150 rivers flowing into its drainage system; covering parts of six states (MD, VA, DE, PA, NY and WV). The word Chesepioc is an Algonquian word referring to a village at a big river and collectively, the Powtan tribes were the dominant group long before any Europeans arrived in the area.

Stretching more than 200 miles from the Susquehanna River in the north to Virginia Beach and the Atlantic Ocean in the south, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is home for more than 18 million people and is an integral part of the ecological and economic well-being of the region. The Bay is home to more than 3,600 species of animals and plants and provides important habitat for the wildlife as well as providing an abundance of recreational opportunities.

In addition to its famous Blue Crabs and sailing culture, the Bay is also renowned for dozens of shipwrecks and its role in The Civil War where the first ironclads battled near Hampton Roads, VA.

Stretching 191 miles long from Havre de Grace, Maryland to Virginia Beach, Virginia, the bay is the outlet to the Atlantic Ocean for many major rivers from north to south including: Susquehanna River, Patuxent River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, York River, and James River. All of these rivers flow into the bay and run into the Delmarva Peninsula before flowing south and converging at the end of the peninsula at Cape Charles and Cape Henry and finally draining into the Atlantic ocean. From the northernmost point, to the southern end of the bay, the only access across the bay to the peninsula is by the famed Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which crosses the bay from Annapolis, across Kent Island, before arriving at Kent Narrows.

Showcased on the map are the major cities situated along the shoreline of the bay as well along the peninsula including: Baltimore, Annapolis, Washin