| For example, each barrier island has a shoreline that faces the sea and receives the full force of waves, tides, and currents. |
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| The village is located on Sarichef Island, a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea. |
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| Parts of the Westhampton barrier island are in the Quogue and Westhampton Beach. |
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| Two barrier island communities deserve attention as the nation's most vulnerable to sea level. |
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| The overlying Notikewin Formation developed in a moderate energy prograding barrier island and deltaic environment. |
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| According to one legend, the ponies on this 37-mile-long barrier island are descendants of horses that survived the shipwreck of a Spanish galleon. |
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| This is an enormous project for a vulnerable barrier island. |
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| The North Bay of the Biscayne Bay lies between Miami Beach barrier island and Miami on the mainland. |
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| The barrier island it is connected to cannot. |
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| Emerald Isle is a barrier island in the southern Outer Banks. |
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| In October 2009, the US Department of the Interior proposed designating key areas of polar bear habitat across Alaska: barrier island habitat, sea ice habitat and terrestrial denning habitat. |
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| The walrus army appeared on a beach on a barrier island near Point Lay, an Inupiat Eskimo village on Alaska's northwest coast last week. |
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| Cape Canaveral, cape and city in Brevard county, east-central Florida, U. S. The cape is a seaward extension of Canaveral Island, a barrier island running southeastward along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| A small feral population exists on one barrier island in Georgia. |
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| A 6.5 m boat, formerly used as a commercial crayfishing vessel, drifted from Flat Island near Great Barrier Island and beached in Boulder Bay on Whatupuke Island. |
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