1. Most of the residents of the barrier island town heeded calls to evacuate before the storm.

2. A barrier island offthe coast of Georgiawhere the Feilers have spent summers for four generations, Tybee was alwayssomething of an anti-paradise.

3. The secluded barrier island gained fame after serving as the location of the secret wedding of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette in 1996.

4. Most of the residents of the barrier island town heeded calls to evacuate before the storm. President Bush told them to stay away until it is safe to return.

5. Between the port and the ocean, a barrier island runs northwest-southeast (shown along the left edge of the image).

6. Cat Island, a bird rookery and barrier island in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, La., is surrounded by boom—inflatable, floating cylinders.

7. Benxi formation belongs to barrier island-tidal flat sedimentology system of terrigenous clasts coast. Reservoir sedimentary facies is mainly barrier island sedimentary.

8. Jupiter Island Florida, an Atlantic coast 2)barrier island, roughly 10 miles long, a quarter to half mile wide.

9. In the barrier island town of Galveston, homes and businesses were flooded out, and when the storm winds receded, the local highway was covered with boats and other refuse left behind by the sea.

10. This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands built by the surf out of drifting sand.

11. In the stage of Benxi, the deposits from east to west are respectively shallow-sea continental shelf, barrier island, lagoon and tidal flat in the area.

12. (220 km/h) and 15-ft. (4.5 m) tides that swept over Barrier Island.

13. The Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this image of a barrier island facing the Beaufort Sea, on the northern edge of Canada's Northwest Territories.

14. Located next to the refuge is the Assateague Island National Seashore, which provides amazing opportunities to photograph the true essence of a coastal barrier island.

15. In the late 1970's, Lucas and others began extensive residential development of the Isle of Palms, a barrier island situated eastward of the city of Charleston.

16. Indian Rocks Beach is a town of about 4, 000, located 28 miles west of Tampa on a barrier island between the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway.

17. Oil-stained brown pelican chicks huddle on Cat Island, a barrier island forming the westernmost point of Gulf Islands National Seashore.