2011 Map of Fort Morgan NW

About this map

Dauphin Island stretches across the northern margin of this maritime survey, marking the slender barrier between the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Sound. This chart focuses almost entirely on the aquatic expanse south of the island, documenting the bathymetric and coastal environment of the Alabama shoreline in the early twenty-first century. The mapping of the island's southern edge provides a precise record of the coastline before subsequent decades of erosion and tropical weather events altered the sandy fringes of this sensitive coastal region.