Georges+Island+by+Kira

Hi, my name is Kira. I am in the 8th grade at the [|Amigos School] in Cambridge. My class went to Georges Island, an island in [|Boston Harbor]. I am doing this Wiki to talk about drumlins. [|Georges Island] and the other [|Boston] Harbor Islands are drumlins.

We got to Georges Island by taking a bus to Long Wharf then taking a boat to Georges Island. The island is in the middle of Boston Harbor. It has a fort on it called Fort Warren. It was a union fort and prison during the Civil War. At Georges Island, we studied drumlins by looking at each side of the island.

Drumlins are made of till, which is clay, rocks, dirt and some plants. They look like up side down teaspoons because they were dropped there by glaciers. This is how it happened. Glaciers picked up dirt and rocks. Then they moved into Boston. After that they moved/melted dropping the dirt and rocks a.k.a. till. It also created the Boston basin and isolated the islands. The till formed islands. After many years the weather has shaped them. Georges Island is 2 drumlins comprized. the 2 drumlins were 48 and 64 feet high in 1883 before colenizaion. Now th highest piont is 50feet.



The north side of the island is really eroded and steep with big rocks. While the south side is like a beach with small rocks. On the trip we went to the north side to study till. Then we went to the south side to learn about rocks. After that we compared the two sides and learned about storms. I hope you have learned from our fun field trip to Georges Island. I hope you go sometime.

I got some of my information [|here]. At bostonians.org/factsheet.