It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks, a long barrier peninsula upon which the town of Kitty Hawk is located, at the eastern edge of the sound.

Point Pleasant Beach is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that divides the Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.

The Gateway National Recreation Area Sandy Hook Unit on the barrier peninsula includes two park sites:

Lavallette is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.

It is separated from the Atlantic by a long barrier peninsula, as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island.

Belle Harbor is a suburban enclave on the Rockaway Peninsula, on a narrow barrier peninsula sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Jamaica Bay to the north.

Best of all, the charms of Sandy Hook, the narrow barrier peninsula that juts northeast from New Jersey to form the harbor's eastern border, don't stop with its coastline.

The barrier peninsula forms the other side of the "gateway" to New York Harbor, and includes two park sites:

The estuary is protected from the open Atlantic Ocean on its eastern side by a long barrier peninsula that extends north to become Sandy Hook.

With a 3 -mile beach of pale sand and dunes forming a barrier peninsula, connected to the mainland in 1888 by bridge across the Ogunquit River, the village was discovered by artists.