Vermilion Bay (Louisiana)

Vermilion Bay (French: Baie Vermilion) is a bay in southern Louisiana in the United States.

This article is about the bay in Louisiana. For other uses, see Vermilion Bay (disambiguation).

Vermilion Bay is located in southwestern Iberia Parish and southeastern Vermilion Parish. It is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, to which it is connected to the south by a narrow strait called Southwest Pass; Marsh Island and a portion of the Louisiana mainland in southeastern Vermilion Parish otherwise separate it from the Gulf of Mexico. On the east, Vermilion Bay connects directly to West Cote Blanche Bay.[1]

Notes
  1. Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1984, pp. 690, 1291.

References
  • Webster's New Geographical Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-87779-446-4.


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