page_title: Algiers Point
section_title: Navigational point
hierarchical_section_title: Algiers Point / Navigational point
caption_attribution_description: Mississippi River - New Orleans (Louisiana) self made PRA Algiers Point is seen at right. Across the River is the East Bank of New Orleans. At far left is the lower edge of the French Quarter with the Old Mint building visible. Going down river to the right, are the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods of New Orleans, with the Naval Support Facility beside the Industrial Canal entrance being the large complex of buildings just across the river at the right edge of the photo. Parts of the Industrial Canal can be seen perpendicular to the River, with the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal paralleling the river to the top of the photo. In the distance at top left, Lake Pontchartrain.
context_page_description: Algiers Point is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is simply one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. Since the 1970s, the name Algiers Point has also referred to the neighborhood in the immediate vicinity of that point. People from Algiers Point are known as Algierenes, or Algerines, but never as Algerians.
context_section_description: The course of the Mississippi River past and through New Orleans is in the shape of a crescent.  As the river reaches the downriver end of that crescent, flowing by then in a northerly direction, it makes a sharp "right-hand" turn to the east.  The French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny and Bywater lie on the outside of the bend on the river's left descending bank.  The point of land on the river's right descending bank is, and has historically been, called Algiers Point.
  Just off this point is where the Mississippi River is at its deepest, approximately 60 meters (200 ft) deep.  This depth varies from year to year as the river alternately scours and deposits silt.  A U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation, Algiers Point Light "95," marks the point.  Its geographic coordinates are 29°57′19″N 90°03′19″W
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' linear description of the location is mile 94.6 AHP (above Head of Passes) on the Lower Mississippi River.
  In the 20th century, the Coast Guard began regulating marine traffic approaching and rounding Algiers Point.  Licensed pilots were enlisted to man a tower atop the Gov. Nicholls Street Wharf across the river from the point, and to communicate with mariners via marine VHF radio and via a red and green traffic light, in order to restrict two-way traffic when high water makes such traffic hazardous.
caption: Rounding Algiers Point
  A downbound ship and other vessels on the Lower Mississippi River, with Algiers Point to the right
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