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New London hosts Connecticut College, Mitchell College, and the United States Coast Guard Academy, as well as the small private secondary school The Williams School .
New London lies across the Thames from the town of Groton, Connecticut, home of a United States Navy submarine base and of "EB", the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, which built most existing U.S. nuclear-powered submarines there. As world research headquarters of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, New London and Groton have given birth to many drugs, including ViagraSildenafil citrate sold under the name Viagra is a drug used to treat male erectile dysfunction ( impotence), developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The pills are blue with the words "Pfizer" on one side and "VGR xx" (with xx being either 25, 50.
New London lies on Long Island Sound, roughly half-way between New Haven, ConnecticutThis article is about the city in Connecticut. See New Haven (disambiguation) for other places of the same name. Harkness Tower, part of the Yale University campus located in downtown New Haven New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut, and is l and Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and largest city in Rhode Island, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, it has a population of 173,618, but a July 1, 2002 Census estimate put the city's population at 175,901. It is located in Providenc. Interstate 95Interstate 95 or (I-95) is an interstate highway that runs 1907 miles (3070 kilometers) north and south along the eastern United States coast. The southernmost point is in the city of Miami, Florida; the northern terminus is at the Canadian border at Houl connects it to both of those cities, and it is 5 miles (8 km.) from Interstate 395Interstate 395 is the designation for several interstate highway spur routes associated with Interstate 95, which spans the east coast of the United States. Maine The 5 mile long Interstate 395 in Maine travels east from United States Highway 2 in Bangor,, the fastest road route to the Boston metropolitan areaA metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. A metropolitan area us. FerriesA ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and possibly their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-scheduled service. Ferries form an important part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit bet also transport cars and pedestrians between New London and Orient Point, at the northeastern tip of Long Island; they also provide access with Fishers Island, a small island that (despite its lying closer to New London) is in New York State.