Pecks Beach or Peck's Beach is a

barrier island Barrier islands are coastal landforms and a type of Dune, dune system that are exceptionally flat or lumpy areas of sand that form by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast. They usually occur in chains, consisting of anything fro ...

located on the

Jersey Shore The Jersey Shore (known by locals simply as the Shore) is the coastal region of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Geographically, the term encompasses about of oceanfront bordering the Atlantic Ocean, from Perth Amboy in the north to Cape May Po ...

Cape May County, New Jersey Cape May County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Much of the county is located on Cape May bound by Delaware Bay to its west and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and east. Adjacent to the Atlantic coastline are fiv ...

Geography

Pecks Beach is a

along the Atlantic Ocean between Great Egg Harbor Inlet on the northeast, and

Corson Inlet Corson Inlet is a narrow strait on the southern coast of New Jersey in the United States. Corson Inlet leads from the Atlantic Ocean through barrier islands off the northeast coast of Cape May County, New Jersey. The Inlet separates Ocean City, Ne ...

on the southwest. It was described in 1834 as, An 1878 description follows, ''viz''., Ocean City occupies the entirety of Pecks Beach, along with some adjacent uninhabited islands.

References

Landforms of Cape May County, New Jersey Barrier islands of New Jersey Islands of New Jersey {{CapeMayCountyNJ-geo-stub