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Angel Oak, Johns Island, South Carolina. The Angel Oak is a living Southern live oak tree on Johns Island. [5] Once believed to be 1500 years old, current estimates of the oak's age are 400 to 500 years. [5] [6] The oak is 65 ft (20 m) tall, with a trunk circumference of 25.5 ft (7.8 m). [11]
The Lowcountry (sometimes Low Country or just low country) is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina's coast, including the Sea Islands. The region includes significant salt marshes and other coastal waterways, making it an important source of biodiversity in South Carolina.
The Sea Islands are a chain of over a hundred tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Southeastern United States, between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns rivers along South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The largest is Johns Island, South Carolina. Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah people.
Daufuskie Island, located between Hilton Head Island and Savannah, is the southernmost inhabited sea island in South Carolina. It is 5 miles (8 km) long by almost 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide – approximate surface area of 8 square miles (21 km 2 ) [ 2 ] (5,000 acres).
Seabrook Island, formerly known as Simmons Island, [5] is a barrier island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,714 at the 2010 census, [6] up from 1,250 in 2000. Seabrook Island is part of the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area.
The reef stretches from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, about 100 miles off the southeast U.S. coastline. It is about 310.69 miles long and reaches up 68.35 miles wide at points, NOAA said ...
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Morris Island Lighthouse. Morris Island is an 840-acre (3.4 km 2) uninhabited island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, accessible only by boat. The island lies in the outer reaches of the harbor and was thus a strategic location in the American Civil War. The island is part of the cities of Charleston and Folly Beach, in Charleston County.