Avery Island
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.Photo: Skb8721, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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- Type: Island
- Description: unincorporated community in Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Avery Island, LA”, “McIlheny”, and “Salt Mine Station”
Avery Island
- Categories: unincorporated community, locality, and landform
- Location: Iberia, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.8985° or 29° 53′ 55″ northLongitude
-91.9062° or 91° 54′ 22″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AVIOpen location code
76XCV3XV+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 358389144OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4315217Wikidata ID
Q490475
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Avery Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Avery uhartea (Louisiana)”
- Basque: “Avery uhartea”
- Catalan: “Avery Island”
- Chinese: “埃弗里島”
- Czech: “Avery Island”
- Danish: “Avery Island”
- Dutch: “Avery Island”
- French: “Ile Avery”
- French: “Île Avery”
- French: “île Petite Anse”
- French: “Île Petite Anse”
- Galician: “Illa Avery”
- German: “Avery Island”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Avery (Louisiana)”
- Irish: “Avery Island”
- Japanese: “エイヴァリーアイランド”
- Persian: “جزیره اوری”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ اوری”
- Persian: “جزیره ایوری”
- Slovenian: “Avery Island”
- South Azerbaijani: “آوری ایسلند، لوئیزیانا”
- Swedish: “Avery Island”
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