The island is situated west of Grand Isle, protruding into the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 55 miles from New Orleans by boat, at the southern tip of Jefferson Parish. Aside from oysters the island also supplied sugar cane and oranges for market but the main industry was supplying oysters, shrimp and crabs to New Orleans restaurants.People.loyno.edu Kate Chopin: The Hurricane of 1893- Retrieved 2019-05-09
