Sable Island

Sable Island is an island in Plaquemines Parish, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana. Sable Island is situated nearby to the locality Plaquemines Parish, as well as near the hamlet Fort St. Philip.

Type: Island
Description: island in Plaquemines Parish, United States of America
Also known as: “Little Bird Island”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson.

Fort St. Philip

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Fort St. Philip is a historic masonry fort located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, about 40 miles upriver from its mouth in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, just opposite Fort Jackson on the other side of the river.

Fort Jackson

Hamlet

Photo: Jmulhearn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fort Jackson is a historic masonry fort located 40 miles up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans, between 1822 and 1832, and it was a battle site during the American Civil War.

Buras

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Buras is a census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its population was 945 at the 2010 census, and 1,109 in 2020. Prior to the 2010 census, Buras was considered to be part of the Buras-Triumph CDP. Buras is situated 5 miles southwest of Sable Island.

Sable Island

Categories: locality and landform
Location: Plaquemines Parish, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.40855° or 29° 24′ 31″ north

Longitude

-89.47645° or 89° 28′ 35″ west

Elevation

10 feet (3 metres)

Open location code

76XGCG5F+CC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358371290

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4339363

Wikidata ID

Q49676580

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Sable Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Sable Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Louisiana)”
Cebuano: “Sable Island”

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