Pelican Island (New Jersey)
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Pelican Island is an island in the Barnegat Bay wholly located in
Ocean County Ocean County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the southernmost county in the New York metropolitan area. The county borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and in terms of total area is the state's largest county. Its co ...
,
New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...
. It is accessible from Toms River and Seaside Heights via the Tunney and Mathis Bridges on New Jersey Route 37. It is part of Toms River and Berkeley Township. Pelican Island was impacted significantly by damage from
Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late ...
.Paik, Eugene
"Volunteers clean up Pelican Island during MLK Day of Service"
''
The Star-Ledger ''The Star-Ledger'' was the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey. It is based in Newark, New Jersey. The newspaper ceased print publication on February 2, 2025, but continues to publish a digital edition. In 2007, ''The Star-Ledger''s ...
'', January 21, 2013. Accessed April 3, 2016.


References

Berkeley Township, New Jersey Toms River, New Jersey Landforms of Ocean County, New Jersey Islands of New Jersey Coastal islands of New Jersey {{OceanCountyNJ-geo-stub