Cote Blanche Bay is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
in southern
Louisiana in the
United States. It is divided into East Cote Blanche Bay and West Cote Blanche Bay.
Cote Blanche Bay is located on the southwest coast of
St. Mary Parish; East Cote Blanche Bay forms its southeastern portion and West Cote Blanche Bay makes up its northwestern part. It is an
inlet
An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Overview
In marine geogra ...
of the
Gulf of Mexico, to which East Cote Blanche Bay connects directly on the south; West Cote Blanche Bay connects to the west with
Vermilion Bay.
Marsh Island (in
Iberia Parish
Iberia Parish (french: Paroisse de l'Ibérie, es, Parroquia de Iberia) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 69,929; the parish seat is New Iberia.
The parish was formed in 1868 du ...
) lies to the west of East Cote Blanche Bay and to the south of West Cote Blanche Bay, separating West Cote Blanche Bay from the Gulf of Mexico.
[''Webster's New Geographical Dictionary'', 1984, pp. 295, 690.]
Notes
References
* ''Webster's New Geographical Dictionary''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1984. .
Bays of Louisiana
Bodies of water of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Bodies of water of Iberia Parish, Louisiana
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