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The Map Poster to accompany Professional Paper 1827 Outerof Banks By Robert Dolan, Harry Lins, and Jodi Jones Smith

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SOUTHAMPTON SUFFOLK COUNTY CHESAPEAKE COUNTY COUNTY BEACH COUNTY VIRGINIA NORTHAMPTON COUNTY GATES COUNTY Currituck Inlet (closed)

Lighthouses 36°30'

CURRITUCK Currituck COUNTY

CAMDEN COUNTY Corolla

Currituck Beach

HERFORD COUNTY h c a e B a l l o r o C

PERQUIMANS COUNTY

CHOWAN COUNTY PASQUOTANK COUNTY Duck

BERTIE COUNTY Currituck Southern Shores

Currituck Beach Lighthouse Hatteras Lighthouse Lighthouse Kitty Hawk Ocracoke Lighthouse Kill Devil Hills 36°00' WRIGHT BROTHERS NATIONAL MEMORIAL B o d eIsia l n d 36°00' Nags Head Woods

Jockey’s Ridge Nags Head

Northwest Fort Raleigh City Point

Manteo Shallowbag Wright Brothers National Memorial Bay Roanoke Inlet Roanoke (closed) Island

Roanoke Sound WASHINGTON COUNTY

TYRRELL COUNTY DARE COUNTY Herbert C. Bonner Bridge

MARTIN COUNTY

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A Wilbur and Orville Wright used the at Kitty Hawk for their first flight E

tests because of its gently rolling, barren terrain, flat beaches, and steady winds. S

The location is now incorporated into the Wright Brothers National Memorial.

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COUNTY Today this region bears little resemblance to the barren terrain of the Wright brothers’ Rodanthe

time; undeveloped land now is rare in the Outer Banks except in preserves such as

Waves this memorial, a national wildlife refuge, and two national seashores. Long Shoal Lightship L

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HYDE COUNTY

Cape Hatteras

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E Buxton P A C Lighthouse Frisco Hatteras Billy Mitchell Village Airport Cape Hatteras

Hatteras Inlet Diamond Shoal PAMILCO COUNTY Lightship Brant Island Shoal Lightship

Royal Shoal Lightship Ocracoke Nine Foot Shoal Lightship Ocracoke Island

Portsmouth Ocracoke Lighthouse

35°00' Harbor Island Portsmouth Island Lightship Cape Lookout

JONES CRAVEN

COUNTY COUNTY E North Core Banks National Seashore R O H S Astonishingly beautiful Cape Hatteras National Seashore—the ’ A CARTERET COUNTY E first national seashore—is one of the world’s best examples of coastal barrier S (closed?) Old Drum Inlet (closed?) islands, a chain of narrow, landward-shifting sand islands parallel to the coast. L These islands are a dynamic system, formed and continually reshaped by wind, A Core New Drum Inlet waves, and longshore currents. Despite their beauty, barrier islands can be harsh N Sound O places for plants and animals, and indeed for the islands themselves. Only I T robust species thrive in the islands’ loose sandy soils, salt spray, and periodic A N

saltwater flooding.

T U O K ONSLOW O Core Banks COUNTY O L

Beaufort Inlet In 1966, Congress authorized Cape Lookout National Seashore to ensure that Core and Back South Core Banks S h a c k l e f o r d Sound E would be preserved in their natural state. In contrast to the northern P B a n k s A Outer Banks, which are stabilized by protective engineered structures, the area from C N APE C AT LO Portsmouth Island to Core Banks and west along Shackleford Banks generally is without ION OK AL OU SE T permanent structures or settlements; access is by boat or ferry. Only ASH Cape Lookout Lighthouse ORE Cape Lookout concessionaires provide services to birders, botanists (who come to see oak and pine Cape Lookout 0 5 10 15 20 MILES maritime forests), photographers, day-hikers, and campers who visit this serene seashore.

0 5 10 15 20 KILOMETERS Cape Point

34°30' 77°00' 76°30' 76°00' 75°30' Publishing support provided by Denver Publishing Service Center Edited by Mary-Margaret Coates Layout and graphic design by Carol A. Quesenberry U.S. Department of the Interior ISSN 1044-9612 (print) This publication is available online at: ISSN 2330-7102 (online) U.S. Geological Survey https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1827 https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1827