Avery Island
Avery Island is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles inland from Vermilion Bay, which opens onto the Gulf of Mexico.- Type: Island
- Description: island in the United States of America
- Also known as: “French Cove”, “Marsh Island”, “Marshs Island”, “Petit Anse”, “Petite Anse”, “Salt Island”, and “Thomas Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avery Island.
Avery Island
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Avery Island is in Louisiana. A few miles southwest of New Iberia is Avery Island, home of the McIlhenny Tabasco factory and a wildlife sanctuary. The island is actually an eight-mile deep salt dome.
Avery Island
- Categories: salt dome and landform
- Location: Iberia, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Avery Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Avery Island”
- Danish: “Avery Island (Louisiana)”
- Danish: “Avery Island”
- Dutch: “Avery Island”
- French: “Île Petite Anse”
- Galician: “Illa Avery, Luisiana”
- German: “Avery Island”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Avery (Louisiana)”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Avery”
- Japanese: “エイブリー島”
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