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Corolla (/ k ə ˈ r ɑː l ə / kuh-RAHL-uh) [1] is an unincorporated community located in Poplar Branch township, Currituck County, North Carolina, United States, along the northern Outer Banks. It has a permanent population of approximately 500 people; during the summer vacation season, the population surges into the thousands.
Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula is a large peninsula (about 3,200 square miles) on the North Carolina coast, lying between the Albemarle Sound to the north and the Pamlico Sound to the south. The 5 counties of Dare , Hyde , Beaufort , Tyrrell , and Washington all lie wholly or partly on the peninsula.
Bogue Sound is a lagoon in the state of North Carolina separating the Bogue Banks, a 21-mile-long (34 km) barrier island, from the mainland. The sound is part of North Carolina's " Crystal Coast ", a tourism marketing term that is also used interchangeably with the term "Southern Outer Banks ."
More recent evidence suggests that German-accented English helped to greatly influence the Shift, because German speakers tend to pronounce the English TRAP vowel as [ɛ] and the LOT/PALM vowel as [ä~a], both of which resemble NCS vowels, and there were more speakers of German in the Erie Canal region of upstate New York in 1850 than there ...
How to pronounce Raleigh NC’s trickiest place names. Martha Quillin. June 7, 2023 at 2:08 PM. 1 / 3. How did Raleigh get its quirky, iconic acorn? A New Year’s history that almost wasn’t.
Typical of rivers in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, the Neuse enters a basin of chocolate intermittent bottomland swamp on its journey towards its outlet. One interesting exception is the " Cliffs of the Neuse " area near Goldsboro , where the river cuts a narrow 30 m (90 ft) gorge through limestone and sandstone bluffs.
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Currituck (/ ˈ k ʊr ɪ t ʌ k /) [1] is an unincorporated community in extreme northeastern North Carolina, United States. Situated along the Currituck Sound , it serves as the county seat for Currituck County .