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Assateague Island is a bridge away from Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. This barrier Island runs along the Atlantic Coast for 37 miles from Virginia into Maryland. It is only three miles across at the narrowest point. The Assateague Island National Seashore manages the beach in both states. On the Virginia side of the Island is the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge that attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year. People come from all over the world for bird watching, to see the wildlife and the mystical Chincoteague wild ponies and the Assateague Lighthouse. More than 320 species of birds are known to inhabit the Island during some portion of the year, travelling what is known as the Atlantic Flyway. Thousands of visitors also come to enjoy the white sand beach along ocean and to Pony Penning which is held the last week of July each year. At Pony Penning the foals are auctioned off to raise money for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company which owns the ponies. The ponies are also rounded up in the fall and spring when they are given vaccines and worm medicine. The ponies, about 150 of them, are divided into the southern and northern herds that roam the ranges on Assateague, named for the Native Americans who lived on the Island many years ago. The name means "A Running Stream Between." This photograph was taken by one of the staff members of www.wildponytales.info, the online magazine that covers Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. From our Photo Store, the image here may be ordered as a print. For stories about the Islands of Assateague and Chincoteague, go to www.wildponytales.info. . FOR TEE SHIRTS - UPDATED REWRITE OF DESCRIPTIONS – May 20, 2010 Assateague Island is a bridge away from Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. This barrier Island runs along the Atlantic Coast for 37 miles from Virginia into Maryland. It is only three miles across at the narrowest point. The Assateague Island National Seashore manages the beach in both states. On the Virginia side of the Island is the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge that attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year. People come from all over the world for bird watching, to see the wildlife and the mystical Chincoteague wild ponies and the Assateague Lighthouse. More than 320 species of birds are known to inhabit the Island during some portion of the year, travelling what is known as the Atlantic Flyway. Thousands of visitors also come to enjoy the white sand beach along ocean and to Pony Penning which is held the last week of July each year. At Pony Penning the foals are auctioned off to raise money for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company which owns the ponies. The ponies are also rounded up in the fall and spring when they are given vaccines and worm medicine. The ponies, about 150 of them, are divided into the southern and northern herds that roam the ranges on Assateague, named for the Native Americans who lived on the Island many years ago. The name means "A Running Stream Between." This photograph was taken by one of the staff members of www.wildponytales.info, the online magazine that covers Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. From our Photo Store, the image here may be ordered as a print. For stories about the Islands of Assateague and Chincoteague, click on our home page. FOR TEE SHIRTS - UPDATED REWRITE OF DESCRIPTIONS – May 20, 2010 Assateague Island is a bridge away from Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. This barrier Island runs along the Atlantic Coast for 37 miles from Virginia into Maryland. It is only three miles across at the narrowest point. The Assateague Island National Seashore manages the beach in both states. On the Virginia side of the Island is the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge that attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year. People come from all over the world for bird watching, to see the wildlife and the mystical Chincoteague wild ponies and the Assateague Lighthouse. More than 320 species of birds are known to inhabit the Island during some portion of the year, travelling what is known as the Atlantic Flyway. Thousands of visitors also come to enjoy the white sand beach along ocean and to Pony Penning which is held the last week of July each year. At Pony Penning the foals are auctioned off to raise money for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company which owns the ponies. The ponies are also rounded up in the fall and spring when they are given vaccines and worm medicine. The ponies, about 150 of them, are divided into the southern and northern herds that roam the ranges on Assateague, named for the Native Americans who lived on the Island many years ago. The name means "A Running Stream Between." This photograph was taken by one of the staff members of www.wildponytales.info, the online magazine that covers Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. From our Photo Store, the image here may be ordered as a print. For stories about the Islands of Assateague and Chincoteague, click on our home page.