Seven Mile Island or Seven Mile Beach is the name of a

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on the

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, United States. It is divided between the boroughs of

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to the north, from 6th to 80th Streets, and

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to the south, from 80th Street to Hereford Inlet. The island is long, and is three to four blocks wide. Known as Leaming's Island in 1722, when the first purchase of its was recorded, its dunes, woodlands and beaches were purchased for the equivalent of $380.

Geography

Seven Mile Island is a barrier island along the

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between Townsends Inlet on the northeast, and

Hereford Inlet Hereford Inlet is an inlet in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, adjacent to North Wildwood, New Jersey. Geography Hereford Inlet separates Seven Mile Island from Five Mile Beach. It was described in 1834 as, Hereford Inlet was descr ...

on the southwest. An expanse of

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and tidal channels separates Seven Mile Island from

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, and the mainland. Seven Mile Island was described in 1834 as, An 1878 description of Seven Mile Island is as follows, ''viz'',

References

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