Plaquemines Bend
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First major bend of the Mississippi ascending from Head of Passes. The site was recognized as a strategic with the french building fortifications there at this bend since 1750s
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 29°21'23"N 89°27'31"W
- The Wagon Wheel (Chawnee Bay) 12 km
- Bayou Lamoque Freshwater Diversion Project 19 km
- Sixtymile Point 20 km
- West Bay Freshwater Diversion Project 21 km
- Cubit's Gap 24 km
- South Pass 30 km
- Johnson Pass 35 km
- Dennis Pass 35 km
- Loomis Pass 36 km
- Pass a l'Outre, Louisiana 43 km
- Mississippi River Delta Erosion 22 km
- Mississippi River Delta 35 km
- Breton Sound 52 km
- Chandeleur Islands 62 km
- Whiting Dome 114 km
- Biloxi Dome 125 km
- Mitchell Dome 132 km
- Horn Dome 133 km
- GLORIA Dome 135 km
- Mobile Dome 153 km