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Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana , United States, it is about three miles (4.8 km) inland from Vermilion Bay , which opens onto the Gulf of Mexico .
Historical San Juan Island, modern Cortes Bank, is a high seamount, an island submerged 6 feet and more, 96 mi SW of San Pedro, 111 mi (166 km) W of Pt Loma, and 47 mi (82 km) SW of San Clemente Island. The outermost feature in the Channel Islands, it has been visible as an island from elevations on San Clemente Island on clear days, and known ...
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San Nicolas Island has been used since 1957 as a launch pad for research rockets. Santa Rosa Island was used in 1952 as a base for the USAF 669th AC&W Squadron and they operated two Distant Early Warning FPS-10 radars from the hilltops there. In 1955 another FPS-3 search radar was added, and in 1956, a GPS-3 search radar was installed.
The Red Hills are also known collectively as Red Island; [12] Red Island and Mullet Island were both islands in 2005. [13] As of 2018, Mullet Island is a peninsula. [12] The other domes have also been islands at times, [14] and waves have cut erosional terraces along the former shorelines. [15] The Salton Buttes are lava domes.
Cote Blanche is a place located in St. Mary parish, Louisiana, United States.It is an "island" or an elevated mound rising about 25 meters above the surrounding Holocene coastal marshes at the shore of West Cote Blanche Bay, which in turn opens onto the Gulf of Mexico.
The construction of the MRGO, which breaches the natural barrier of the Bayou La Loutre ridge and the Borgne land bridge, has allowed sea water to push farther into the basin. Relative sea level rise of up to 0.96 feet per century also gives saltier waters greater access to surrounding wetlands.
Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay, aerial view. Santa Monica Bay is a bight of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, United States.Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume, in Malibu, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.