Outer Lands

The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States.

The Outer Lands forms the insular northeasternmost extension of North America's Atlantic coastal plain.

The islands of the Outer Lands were formed of terminal moraines deposited on a series of cuestas by the recession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin glaciation.

[13][14][7] The region is designated the "Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland", Major Land Resource Area 149B, by the United States Department of Agriculture, which also includes Staten Island.

From eastern Long Island east, much of the region has in recent decades taken on a summer colony character.