Avery Island (Louisiana)
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Avery Island is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles inland from Vermilion Bay, which opens onto the Gulf
Avery Island as seen from a distance across a sugarcane field
Avery Island wildlife
A rookery of egrets on Avery Island
Azaleas at Avery Island
Nutria
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The nutria or coypu is an herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent native to South America.
Avery Island (Louisiana)
…letters patent for his sauce-processing formula. That same basic process is still used today. In 1938, his son, Edward Avery McIlhenny established a nutria farm on Avery Island, Louisiana, near the factory where the company that bears his family name makes Tabasco sauce. According to company history…
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M. c. coypus feeding; in Chile
The species is native to South America