Isle aux Herbes
| Isle aux Herbes | ||
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| Waters | Gulf of Mexico | |
| Geographical location | 30 ° 20 '39 " N , 88 ° 15' 24" W | |
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| length | 4 km | |
| width | 500 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Isle aux Herbes (German: "herb island "), also Coffee Island , is an island up to four kilometers long and a maximum of 500 meters wide in the north-south direction in the Gulf of Mexico or the Mississippi Sound off the coast of the US state of Alabama .
The island is less than two kilometers from the Gulf coast and the town of Bayou La Batre . Depending on the wind direction, wind strength and height of the tidal range , it can lie completely under water. Hardly more than two weeks before the arrival of the oil spill caused by the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon platform , attempts were made in April 2010 to counter the progressive erosion through sand heaps and other measures that were primarily intended to protect the coast .