An Eightteenth-Century Ballast Pile Site Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

The Chaunderleurs from an acute sweep of low-lying islands and spits for over 60 km northeastward of the Mississippi River delta. They lie within U.S. Territorial Waters and from the eastern barrier shoreline of Louisiana. In 1998, an archaeological site was located 1.5 km east of the northern islands that comprise this island chain in 7 m of water.