Long Beach Island (" LBI "), a barrier island along the eastern coast, has popular recreational beaches.

varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babeldaob to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs

The island forms the main barrier between the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic Sea.

It is ranked as the fourth longest and fourth largest island in the contiguous United States, behind Padre Island, Texas ( the world's longest barrier island ); Long Island ( a fact disputed by residents ); and Isle Royale, Michigan.

Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side.

The island received its European name from Captain Cook because it acts as a barrier between the Pacific Ocean and the Hauraki Gulf.

Accepted as basically correct, his explanation involved considering that several tropical island types — from high volcanic island, through barrier reef island, to atoll — represented a sequence of gradual subsidence of what started as an oceanic volcano.

He reasoned that a fringing coral reef surrounding a volcanic island in the tropical sea will grow upwards as the island subsides ( sinks ), becoming an " almost atoll ", or barrier reef island, as typified by an island such as Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, Bora Bora and others in the Society Islands.

File: Atoll forming-Atoll. png | Ultimately the island sinks below the sea, and the barrier reef becomes an atoll enclosing an open lagoon

Reginald Aldworth Daly offered a somewhat different explanation for atoll formation: islands worn away by erosion, by ocean waves and streams, during the last glacial stand of the sea of some below present sea level developed as coral islands ( atolls ), or barrier reefs on a platform surrounding a volcanic island not completely worn away, as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.

The city of Galveston is situated on Galveston Island, a barrier island that is made up mostly of sand-sized particles and smaller amounts of finer mud sediments and larger gravel-sized sediments on the Texas Gulf coast near the mainland coast.

North Padre Island is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the world.

* San José Island ( Texas ), a barrier island on the Texas coast in the United States, also known as " St. Joseph Island "

The grant contained and today the barrier island Hutchinson Island still retains his name.

File: Atoll forming-Atoll. png | Ultimately, the island sinks below the sea, and the barrier reef becomes an atoll enclosing an open lagoon.

A barrier reef can encircle an island, and once the island sinks below sea level a roughly circular atoll of growing coral continues to keep up with the sea level, forming a central lagoon.

* Atoll reef – this more or less circular or continuous barrier reef extends all the way around a lagoon without a central island.

He was at Cumberland Island when an Indian gave the barrier island its name.

A red filter, Zeiss barrier filter with the code ( Schott ) designation BG 23, was also used in the ocular lens assembly as it improved the contrast between specific and nonspecific fluorescence.

This recommendation was based on the fact that the hymen was not the only barrier to smooth consummation of the sex act.

Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.

Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle in flight at Mach 7, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm. On September 30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held in Rome with the topic of high velocity flight and the possibility of breaking the sound barrier.

The sound barrier was broken using the Bell X-1 aircraft twelve years later, thanks in part to those individuals.

By the time the sound barrier was broken, much of the subsonic and low supersonic aerodynamics knowledge had matured.

The sea was a communication medium rather than a barrier

As well as industrial uses, the Royal Military Canal on the Romney Marsh was built so as create a barrier against invading troops, and hiding places for British troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

This design philosophy was decided on to lower the cost of building devices, and in turn lower the entry barrier to becoming familiar with chorded keyboards.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

The Teutonic Order's strategy was to move down the Vistula and secure the delta, establishing a barrier between the Prussians and Danzig ( Present day Gdańsk ).

When the tide came in water was allowed to flow in behind a barrier.

The sound barrier was broken, and after a few false starts due to required changes in controls, speeds quickly reached Mach 2 — past which aircraft can't maneuver to avoid attack.

Nevertheless, these fighters could only achieve modest increases in top speed due to problems of compressibility created as aircraft and their propellers approached the sound barrier, and it was apparent that propeller-driven aircraft were approaching the limits of their performance.

There was a huge language barrier as Japanese was unlike other languages the missionaries had previously encountered.

The barrier was largely torn down by Palestinians at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000 .< ref name =" Doron Almog ">

He considered trying to resume his career as a goalkeeper but even he had to accept that the loss of binocular vision was an obvious barrier to maintaining his goalkeeping livelihood, and announced his retirement from playing on 8 August 1973.

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

The most prominent frontier barrier was the Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, which finally closed the loop hole in the East German border between East Berlin and West Berlin.

He was underlining the support of the United States for West Germany 22 months after the Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between East and West.

It also shows the extent to which an Irish man was interrogated by British Police and how he failed to be able to answer their questions due to a language barrier.

To overcome the political barrier of nationalism, Lenin said it was necessary to acknowledge the existence of nationalism among oppressed peoples, and to guarantee their national independence, as the right of secession ; and that, based upon national self-determination, it was natural for socialist states to transcend nationalism and form a federation.

The outer part of the primary cell wall of the plant epidermis is usually impregnated with cutin and wax, forming a permeability barrier known as the plant cuticle.

At the end, France had to surrender Alsace and part of Lorraine, because Moltke and his generals insisted that it was needed as a defensive barrier.

# Protection: an anatomical barrier from pathogens and damage between the internal and external environment in bodily defense ; Langerhans cells in the skin are part of the adaptive immune system.

Nevertheless, Shabranigdo's lieutenants remained at liberty, sealing a part of the world within a magical barrier, through which only mazoku could pass.

He sees African dependence on aid and foreign intervention as a major barrier to the continent's being taken seriously in the world of economics and politics, and sees structures like NEPAD and the AU as part of a process in which Africa solves its own problems without relying on outside assistance.

Retaining walls are a special type of wall, that may be either external to a building or part of a building, that serves to provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water.

The entire coast of Lazio, on which the mountain and the marsh are located, was a chain of barrier islands that was formed on a horst, made part of the mainland by sedimentation of the intervening graben.

The fringing reef becomes a barrier reef for the reason that the outer part of the reef maintains itself near sea level through biotic growth, while the inner part of the reef falls behind, becoming a lagoon because conditions are less favorable for the coral and calcareous algae responsible for most reef growth.

Towards the south of the side is a small break in the barrier reef, allowing access for small boats to the lagoon which covers most of the southern part of the triangle.

In 1974, the Metropolitan Police proposed erecting a semi-permanent barrier between the pavement and carriageway on the Foreign Office side of the street, to keep pedestrians off the main part of the street.

Then, for, the river forms part of the national border line between Spain and Portugal, in a region of narrow canyons, making it a historical barrier for invasions and a cultural / linguistic divide.

Documents discovered by the German historian Fritz Fischer have suggested that in the event of a German victory, one policy under discussion by the German government as part of its Septemberprogramm was to annex a strip of Poland, and replace the population with Germans to set up a defensive barrier in the east.

* Indirect Method ( I / IND ): A manipulative technique where the restrictive barrier is disengaged and the dysfunctional body part is moved away from the restrictive barrier until tissue tension is equal in one or all planes and directions

The barrier was closed on 3 June 2012 to reduce the river flow whilst the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant took place as part of the celebrations for the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

The BBB is distinct from the quite similar blood – cerebrospinal-fluid barrier, which is a function of the choroidal cells of the choroid plexus, and from the blood – retinal barrier, which can be considered a part of the whole realm of such barriers.

U. S. 72, which now connects Chattanooga and Memphis, TN, was once part of an Indian trail from Ditto's Landing on the Tennessee River south of Huntsville and was used to bypass the Muscle Shoals river barrier.

Sarichef Island ( on which Shishmaref is located ) is part of a dynamic, 100 km-long barrier island chain that records human and environmental history spanning the past 2000 years ; the oldest subaerial evidence for the formation of this system is about 1700 14c yr bp ( see References, below ).

The Taconic Mountains form a barrier in the eastern part of the town so that no road connects the town to Massachusetts.

Coney Island is the westernmost part of the barrier islands of Long Island, about long and wide.

* The southern high mountain ranges, part of the Basque mountains, that form a continuous barrier with passes not lower than 600 m AMSL, forming the water divide of the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins.