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Port Fourchon is a short distance off Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1), the road to Grand Isle, via Louisiana Highway 3090. It is the southernmost point of Louisiana accessible by automobile. As a critical infrastructure of national significance, LA 1 provides a vital link to Port Fourchon.
Visitors come to 160-acre (0.65 km 2) Grand Isle State Park to beachcomb, birdwatch, boat, camp, crab, fish, and sunbathe. [10] [11] The site is rumored to hold the buried treasure of famed 18th century privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte whose operations were based at the neighboring Grand Terre Island across the Barataria Pass.
Edison Chouest Offshore operates five shipyards: [1] North American Shipbuilding (NAS) in Larose, Louisiana was founded in 1974 on the Dixie Delta Canal running to Lake Salvador . 29°35′06″N 90°22′30″W / 29.585°N 90.375°W / 29.585; -90.375
In 1999, the Louisiana Artificial Reef Program created the world's largest artificial reef by area, referred to as Grand Isle #9, from the Freeport Sulfur Mine off Grand Isle. As of 2021 oil companies have taken advantage of the Rigs-to-Reefs program with over 600 platforms converted and over 350 are in Louisiana .
Grand Isle's main street is the seaside start of Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1), which stretches 436.2 miles (702.0 km) away to the northwest corner of the state, ...
The Island-class patrol boats were constructed in Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana. Grand Isle has an overall length of 110 feet (34 m). It had a beam of 21 feet (6.4 m) and a draft of 7 feet (2.1 m) at the time of construction. The patrol boat has a displacement of 154 tonnes (152 long tons; 170 short tons) at full load and 137 tonnes ...
SS Joe Webre. [1] [2] was a 100' long, 40 ton, wooden steamship owned by the New Orleans and Timbalier Transportation Company, of Gretna, Louisiana and that foundered at her wharf while docked at Grand Isle, Louisiana, United States in the 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane. [3]
Grand Isle Seaplane Base (ICAO: KGNI, FAA LID: GNI) is a private-use seaplane base located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Grand Isle, in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by the Freeport Sulphur Company.