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Meaning of "barrier islands"
Barrier islands: long, narrow islands that form parallel to the coastline, providing protection from waves and storms and separating the open ocean from the mainland
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People vacation on barrier islands each year.
Barrier islands are very rare along macrotidal coasts.
We will make it pass the barrier islands.
The barrier islands and dunes are sparsely vegetated.
Common terns nest on the barrier islands.
Some of the barrier islands do not appear on the charts.
Much of the decline occurred on the barrier islands.
There are also many barrier islands located in the region.
Summer fishing camps stretched along the barrier islands.
Georgia has thirteen barrier islands off of its coast.
An extensive network of bays and sounds are protected behind barrier islands.
The offshore barrier islands can be seen in the distance.
We make it past the barrier islands.
And barrier islands.
It encompasses several barrier islands.
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Some barrier islands.
These salt marshes can be found to the west of the barrier islands.
There are far more barrier islands than previously thought.
The subsequent breaching of spits by storm waves would form barrier islands.
To the west of us are the barrier islands that protect the mainland.
Over the years inlets have closed and opened in the barrier islands.
For thousands of years these barrier islands have survived onslaughts of wind and sea.
Coastal lagoons are usually connected to the open ocean by inlets between barrier islands.
Development has also destroyed barrier islands and oyster reefs that buffered the coast.
Moderate winds inflicted isolated shingle and siding damage along barrier islands.
The state is lined with barrier islands which act as a natural buffer against storm surge.
The rest of the lagoon is protected from the ocean by a series of barrier islands.
Some of the barrier islands of Georgia also are under evacuation orders.
Long offshore deposits of sand lying parallel to the coast are also called barrier islands.
The storm was most damaging to the barrier islands on the North Carolina coastline.
Biscayne Bay is a shallow estuary partially enclosed by barrier islands.
It is a string of barrier islands that separates the Atlantic Ocean and the mainland.
This coastal lagoon is protected from the sea by five barrier islands and two peninsulas.
The barrier islands of the West Central Gulf Coast of Florida are synonymous with beaches.
Te Kā was stuck on the barrier islands.
Louisiana 's barrier islands do not look like much.
Te Ka was stuck on the barrier islands.
Barrier islands remained inaccessible for much of the day, however.
Te Ké was stuck on the barrier islands.
It is a system of barrier islands that communicates with the sea through 6 inlets.
The four spent years enslaved on the Texas barrier islands.
Barrier islands can also be coral islands, comprised of billions of tiny coral exoskeleton s.
Te Ka was stucked on barrier islands.
And its neighboring barrier islands on high alert. putting the city of Savannah.
One of the most prominent examples is that of the Louisiana barrier islands.
One of the barrier islands along the Arctic refuge coast, east of Kaktovik.
It is one of the last remaining undeveloped barrier islands on the South Carolina coast.
Fisherman Island is the southernmost island on the Delmarva Peninsula chain of barrier islands.
Barrier islands are more prevalent in the north of both of New Zealand's main islands.
Hurricane Lili caused great environmental damage to the marshes and barrier islands in Louisiana.
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