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Breton National Wildlife Refuge is located in southeastern Louisiana in the offshore Breton Islands and Chandeleur Islands. It is located in the Gulf of Mexico and is accessible only by boat. The refuge was established in 1904 through executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt and is the second-oldest refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge ...
Prior to destruction by a hurricane in 1915 there was a fishing settlement on the islands, and even earlier there had been farming on the islands. The Chandeleur Island Light, built in 1895, stood as a landmark and recognizable location for mariners at sea and pilots flying over the Gulf of Mexico. [4] The islands were constantly eroded and ...
The Chandeleur Sound is a sound that lies between mainland Louisiana and the Chandeleur Islands in Saint Bernard Parish. It is situated east of Breton Sound and south of Mississippi Sound . It was formed by the mixing of the Gulf of Mexico and the waters of the Mississippi River, protected by the Islands.
A frenzied group of sharks surrounded a fishing charter off Florida and began taking turns attacking its trolling motor, video shows. It happened Monday, Feb. 26, about 20 miles east of Cape ...
Chandeleur may refer to: Chandeleur Islands, off the coast of Louisiana, U.S. Candlemas, a Christian observance; USS Chandeleur (AV-10), U.S. Navy ship of World War II;
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At least six people are dead and seven missing after a fishing vessel carrying 27 onboard sank in the South Atlantic about 200 miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
The Chandeleur Island Light was a lighthouse established in 1848 near the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands in the Gulf of Mexico, off the east coast of ...