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- Virginia_Barrier_Islands abstract "The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, thin, low-lying, sand and scrub islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula. The sole habitation on these islands, Broadwater, Virginia, was evacuated in 1936 following a hurricane. Because they are uninhabited they form an important ecological region, and several make up the Virginia Coast Reserve.The Virginia Barrier Islands terminate to the south at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and are preceded to the north by Fenwick Island, a barrier spit, not a true island, spanning the Maryland and Delaware border (Transpeninsular Line). They are, in order from north to south:Assateague Island - the first true barrier island from the north and the longest of the barrier islands. It is divided between Maryland and Virginia and is home to a feral horse population, the Chincoteague Pony.Wallops Island - the base of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.Assawoman IslandMetompkin IslandCedar IslandParramore Island - owned by the Nature Conservancy.Hog Island - location of the former town of Broadwater, Virginia. Origin of the Hog Island Sheep.Cobb IslandWreck IslandShipshoal IslandMyrtle IslandSmith Island - once held by the Custis family of Virginia. Martha Custis Washington owned the island, as did her great-granddaughter, whose husband Robert E. Lee gave an account of the island after inspecting it in 1832.Fisherman Island - the last of the islands. It lies at the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and is the terminus for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".
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- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageRevisionID "675729795".
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Assateague_Island.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Barrier_Islands.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Barrier_island.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Broadwater,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Accomack_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Northampton_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Category:Virginia_Barrier_Islands.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge_Tunnel.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge–Tunnel.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Chincoteague_Pony.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Parke_Custis.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Delaware.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Delmarva.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Delmarva_Peninsula.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Fenwick_Island_(Delaware–Maryland).
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Fisherman_Island_(Virginia).
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Hog_Island_(Virginia).
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Hog_Island_Sheep.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Hog_Island_sheep.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Martha_Custis_Washington.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Martha_Washington.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Maryland.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Metompkin_Island.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Nature_Conservancy.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Outer_Banks.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Parramore_Island_Natural_Area_Preserve.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Robert_E._Lee.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Smith_Island,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink The_Nature_Conservancy.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Transpeninsular_Line.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Virginia_Coast_Reserve.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Wallops_Flight_Facility.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Wallops_Island.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink Wreck_Island_Natural_Area_Preserve.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLink File:Barrier_Islands_LandSat.png.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wikiPageWikiLinkText "Virginia Barrier Islands".
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands hasPhotoCollection Virginia_Barrier_Islands.
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- Virginia_Barrier_Islands subject Category:Landforms_of_Accomack_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands subject Category:Landforms_of_Northampton_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands subject Category:Virginia_Barrier_Islands.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands hypernym Chain.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands type Company.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands comment "The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, thin, low-lying, sand and scrub islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula. The sole habitation on these islands, Broadwater, Virginia, was evacuated in 1936 following a hurricane.".
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands label "Virginia Barrier Islands".
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- Virginia_Barrier_Islands wasDerivedFrom Virginia_Barrier_Islands?oldid=675729795.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands depiction Barrier_Islands_LandSat.png.
- Virginia_Barrier_Islands isPrimaryTopicOf Virginia_Barrier_Islands.