Chincoteague Inlet is found lying between Assateague Island and Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It is 30 miles south-southwestward from the Ocean City, MD Inlet.
The approach has no sea buoy, however lighted buoy (R "2"), marking Chincoteague Shoals, is located ESE of the entrance at 37°47’25" N / 075°22’21" W, and can be used.
Prominent on the approach are Assateague Light shown from a 142-foot red and white horizontally banded conical tower and a lookout tower on the southern tip of Assateague Island; both are visible well offshore.
The marked channel through the inlet to Chincoteague Channel is subject to frequent change; the buoys are shifted with changing conditions. Breakers are evident on either side of the channel. A sunken wreck is about 0.4 mile southwest of Fishing Point in 37°51’54" N., 75°24’04" W.
Chincoteague Inlet from Merritt Harbor Mariner's Memorial Park
ChincoteagueInlet is found lying between Assateague Island and Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It is 30 miles south-southwestward from...
The Chincoteague pony, also known as the Assateague horse, is a breed of horse that developed, and now lives, within a semi-feral or feral population on...
southern end of Assateague Island in Virginia with the mouth near ChincoteagueInlet. A U.S. Coast Guard station was located there. Toms Cove also contains...
Bay; Chincoteague Bay's southern end drains into the Atlantic Ocean via Queen Sound and ChincoteagueInlet. No major river flows into Chincoteague Bay—its...
National Seashore and Assateague State Park. The Virginia section contains Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and a one-mile stretch of land containing the...
Island to the southeast. The Chincoteague Channel connects to Chincoteague Bay to the northeast and ChincoteagueInlet to the southwest. 37°54′58″N 75°23′57″W...
toward ChincoteagueInlet from the mainland. An alarm bell was rung in front of W.H. Watson and Company warehouse, and 94 armed men from Chincoteague responded...
between Chincoteague Island and Assateague Island. The Assateague Channel connects to Assateague Bay to the northeast and ChincoteagueInlet to the southwest...
waterway which connects Chincoteague Bay to Isle of Wight Bay, and is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Ocean City Inlet. It separates Sinepuxent...
the Maryland state line south to the ChincoteagueInlet. This area of the island is designated as the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and is managed...
threat to the Mid-Atlantic, storm and gale warnings were issued from ChincoteagueInlet, Virginia, to Cape May, New Jersey, on September 8. However, the hurricane...
and the Coastal drainage from the Delaware Bay drainage boundary to ChincoteagueInlet on the Delmarva Peninsula. Located in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia...
and Virginia and is home to a feral horse population, the Chincoteague Pony. Chincoteague Island- was a barrier island until the mid-19th Century, when...
fishing trawler – a shrimper – ran aground off Assateague Island near ChincoteagueInlet on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. All three people on board survived...
The Confederate privateer, a schooner, was boarded and set afire in ChincoteagueInlet off the coast of Virginia near Cockle Creek by men from the armed...
hotel situated at the Disneyland Paris Newport Bay (Maryland), an arm of Chincoteague Bay between the mainland of Worcester County, Maryland and Sinepuxent...
livestock. On adjacent Assateague Island, the Chincoteague Fire Company lost a portion of its herd of wild Chincoteague Ponies, but Misty, the local pony made...
Description Aldrich United States The ship was driven ashore south of the ChincoteagueInlet, Virginia with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from...
register ton schooner was stranded and sank on Williams Shoal at ChincoteagueInlet on the coast of Virginia. All six people on board were rescued by...
to the mouth of the Santee River, as well as from Chincoteague, Virginia northward to Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings...
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