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Fenwick Island (Delaware–Maryland)
Barrier island along the Atlantic Ocean / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the barrier island. For the town in Delaware, see Fenwick Island, Delaware.
Fenwick Island is a barrier island along the Atlantic Ocean in Delaware and Maryland in the United States.[1] It contains the communities of South Bethany and Fenwick Island in Delaware along with Ocean City, Maryland.[2][3] Until 1933, it was attached to Assateague Island to the south. That year, a hurricane carved an inlet between the two landforms, which was made permanent.[2] If not for the Assawoman Canal, constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1891,[4] the island would be attached to the mainland of Delaware.[5]
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