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Dauphin Island| Island in the Gulf of Mexico at the southwest entrance to Mobile Bay, in Mobile County, southwest Alabama; area 194 sq km/75 sq mi; population (1990) 824. It is the site of the earliest permanent European settlement (1701) in Alabama, which provided a base for further colonization in Louisiana. Passing through Spanish and British hands later in the 18th century, it was captured by the USA in 1813. Fort Gaines (1822), on the east end of the island, was occupied by the Confederacy from 1861 until the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. Current residential development followed the opening of a bridge from the mainland in 1954. |
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| A 150-g sample of the fish was delivered to the US Food and Drug Organization's Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA, for sodium channel-specific in vitro assay (8) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS/ MS) analysis. Dauphin Island, Alabama reminds me of Key West when I was a kid; a kind of laid-back island without a lot of commercial distractions from the magic of its open sky and rainbow-streaked waters. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; ([dagger]) Complexo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo, A Coruna, Spain; ([double dagger]) US Food and Drug Administration, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA; ([section]) Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Osaka, Japan; ([paragraph]) Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and (#) Conselleria de Sanidade, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |