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Barren Island is small, uninhabited landmass in the Chesapeake Bay, [1] just off the coast of Dorchester County, Maryland. It is located at 38°20′4.13″N 76°15′11.44″W / 38.3344806°N 76.2531778°W / 38.3344806; -76.2531778
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
Pages in category "Maryland islands of the Chesapeake Bay" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Maryland. It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Uninhabited islands of Maryland"
Barren Islands, Alaska; Barren Island, Brooklyn, New York; Barren Island (Hudson River), New York; Barren Island (Maryland) Barren Island in Palmyra Atoll, US Minor Outlying Islands; Barren Island (Washington)
Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island. By the 1990s its land mass had dwindled down to a few acres.
Maryland (US: / ˈ m ɛr ɪ l ə n d / ⓘ MERR-il-ənd) [b] is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. [9] [10] It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital and federal district of Washington, D.C. to the southwest.