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Assateague stallion Horses play near an Assateague Island campsite Assateague Lighthouse in 2001. Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The northern two-thirds of the island are in Maryland, and the southern third is in Virginia.
Legend states that Chincoteague ponies descend from Spanish horses shipwrecked off the Virginia coast on their way to Peru in the 16th century. [9]: 244–245 Another story holds that they descend from horses left on the island by pirates. Other evidence points to their ancestors actually being horses brought to the islands in the 17th century ...
The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is a 14,000-acre (57 km 2) wildlife preserve operated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.It is primarily located on the Virginia half of Assateague Island with portions (only about 3%) located on the Maryland side of the island, as well as Morris Island and Wildcat Marsh.
Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch the Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel, the 99th year of the popular tradition. The ponies made the ...
Sep. 21—Volunteers are needed for a forest project on Wild Horse Island next weekend. National Public Lands Day is Sept. 28 and recognizes volunteer efforts that steward public lands. As part of ...
The town includes the whole of Chincoteague Island and an area of adjacent water. The population was 3,344 at the 2020 census. [5] The town is a tourist gateway to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on adjacent Assateague Island, [6] the location of a popular recreational beach and home of the Virginia herd of Chincoteague Ponies.
Chincoteague is the name of a town, and the barrier island on which it is located, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in the United States. [1] The island is about 8 miles (13 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide. Sand forms its soil, with a thin layer of loam above it away from the water, enough to support pine trees and grass. [2]
Cumberland Island National Seashore – Georgia Imagine a secluded island where the only sounds you hear are the waves and the occasional wild horse trotting by. That’s Cumberland Island.