Talk:Last Island (Louisiana)

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Article edited. Original stated that there were no survivors of the hurricane, which is inaccurate. Rev. Robert Samuel McAllister wrote an account of riding out the storm out with twelve other people, all of whom survived.

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"The highest points were under 5 ft (1.5 m) of water."

This makes no sense. Does it mean that, during the actual storm, the water was 5 feet deep over the island ? Does it mean, after the storm,   that all of the former island was completely submerged ? There are five large fragments of this island. Were these present after the storm,  or was the island total destroyed and these fragments re-emerged years later ?Eregli bob (talk) 03:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Contradictory information regarding Last Island, Wine/Vine Island and the Last Island hurricane
The wording in the article seems to suggest that Wine Island is one of five islands into which Last Island has fragmented as a result of the 1856 Last Island hurricane and later storms. That statement is directly based on this source. The maps accompanying the article are at odds with this claim, though: the 1853 map clearly shows "Vine Island" as separate from Last Island, pretty much in the place where the present-day map shows "Wine Island". It seems conceivable that what became Wine/Vine Island was at an earlier time also part of Last Island and at some point in time got separated from it in a storm, quite likely a hurricane, but this must already have been prior to 1853. That would mean that only East, Trinity, Whiskey and Raccoon Islands are the successor islands of what was Last Island/Isle Dernière immediately prior to the 1856 Last Island hurricane. -- Svenman (talk) 21:04, 12 October 2020 (UTC)