Show highest tides in the world the highest tides in the world are the spring tides at the head of the bay of fundy on the coasts of nova scotia and new brunswick where they reach 70 feet in the santa cruz river argentina the ir rise i se is is 40 feet and at cape virgin in in the straits of magellan they reach an equal height in the bristol channel england 44 feet is attained along the welsh coast 36 feet at liverpool 28 26 feet at st malo france 35 feet at no place in the orient or along the african coast or our own western coast are any such heights reached Bom bays high tide is seventeen feet surat the highest in india nineteen feet at the other extreme is Trin comalee ceylon where the neap tide reaches a height of only one foot the high est tide in the united states is found at eastport East port me which rises to a height of twenty and one half feet |