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    Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern...
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    known as the Assateague horse, is a breed of horse that developed, and now lives, within a semi-feral or feral population on Assateague Island in the US...
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    Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Located on the East Coast along...
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    gateway to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on adjacent Assateague Island, the location of a popular recreational beach and home of the Virginia...
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    Assateague Light is the 142-foot-tall (43 m) lighthouse located on the southern end of Assateague Island off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, United...
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    Wildwoods Island, Cape May Island, Assateague Island, Chincoteague Island, Outer Banks, Sea Islands, Hilton Head Island, Key West (part of Florida Keys)...
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  • located on Sinepuxent Neck across Sinepuxent Bay from the barrier island of Assateague. The village was destroyed by a hurricane in 1818 and never rebuilt...
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    Bay, and Chincoteague Bay between the sand barrier islands of Fenwick Island and Assateague Island bordering the Atlantic Ocean coast. It is home to the...
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    History of Chincoteague, Virginia (category History by island)
    a break in the barrier island system, occurs near Chincoteague Island, at the southern end of Assateague Island. Assateague shelters Chincoteague from...
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    Virginia half of Assateague Island with portions (only about 3%) located on the Maryland side of the island, as well as Morris Island and Wildcat Marsh...
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    on July 4, 1875, when the Atlantic Hotel opened on Assateague Island. At the time, Assateague Island was continuous from the Delaware state line to well...
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  • Assateague Channel is a channel on the Eastern Shore of Virginia between Chincoteague Island and Assateague Island. The Assateague Channel connects to...
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  • Assateague may refer to: The Assateague people, a Native American tribe Assateague Island, an Atlantic barrier island in Maryland and Virginia Assateague...
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    South Bethany and Fenwick Island in Delaware along with Ocean City, Maryland. Until 1933, it was attached to Assateague Island to the south. That year,...
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  • Misty of Chincoteague (novel) (category Assateague Island)
    coast of Virginia. The ponies in the hold of the galleon swim to Assateague Island, and become feral as the years - and, eventually, the centuries -...
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  • The Assateague (meaning: "swifly moving water") were an Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast...
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    For example, the Chincoteague pony, a feral horse that lives on Assateague Island off the coasts of Maryland and Virginia, often matures to the height...
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  • Misty (film) (category Assateague Island)
    year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set...
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  • over Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island Verrazano Bridge (Maryland), a plate girder bridge connecting Assateague Island in Maryland This disambiguation...
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    Island and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge abutting the Assateague Island National Seashore. The area includes 70 miles of barrier islands,...
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    Pony Penning (category Assateague Island)
    the Virginia side of Assateague Island and drive them across the Assateague Channel to Veteran's Memorial Park on Chincoteague Island. The ponies swim across...
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    Assateague Island off the coast of Virginia and Maryland, Cumberland Island, Georgia, Vieques Island off the coast of Puerto Rico, and Sable Island off...
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  • Chincoteague Island Library, an historic building in Chincoteague, Virginia Chincoteague Pony, breed of wild pony living on Assateague Island in Maryland...
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    Berlin, Maryland, 21811, within walking distance of the Assateague Island Visitor Center at Assateague State Park, Maryland. Built of Flemish bond brick with...
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    Carolina; Assateague Island in Virginia and Maryland; Absecon Island in New Jersey, where Atlantic City is located; and Jones Beach Island and Fire Island, both...
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    administered by the National Park Service as the southern portion of Assateague Island National Seashore. Crisfield, Maryland, is a notable source of seafood...
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    and the Paul S. Sarbanes Coastal Ecology Center on eight acres near Assateague Island in neighboring Worcester County. UMES offers instruction in 37 undergraduate...
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  • Ossabaw Island Egg Island Wolf Island Butler Island Blackbeard Island Bartoo Island Rock Island Rock Island Arsenal Biddle Island Holmes Island Ribeyre...
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  • strokes. Misty features the annual Pony Penning of feral horses from Assateague Island, a two-day round-up, swim, and auction that Henry had been "sent to...
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    the original (PDF) on March 11, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2010. "Assateague Island National Seashore". National Park Service. Retrieved January 22, 2011...
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