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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 ."
Emerald Isle is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.It is part of the Crystal Coast and is located entirely on Bogue Banks.The population was 3,847 at the 2020 census, [4] but as many as 50,000 tourists each week inhabit the area during the summer season, filling up vacant rental properties that do not count toward official census results.
Bogue Banks is the narrow barrier island separated from the mainland by Bogue Sound Bogue Banks form a 21-mile (34 km) barrier island off the mainland of North Carolina in Carteret County . The island, separated from the mainland by Bogue Sound , runs east to west, with the ocean beaches facing due south.
Atlantic Beach is located on the eastern portion of Bogue Banks, a barrier island on the Atlantic coast. The town is bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north by Bogue Sound , which separates it from the mainland.
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BT-11 Piney Island in Davis [54] and Cat Island in Bogue Sound are former Marine Corps bombing ranges. [55] The Marine Corps also has a facility in Beaufort, at the southern tip of Radio Island [56] (between the NC State Port in Morehead City, and the marine science laboratories on Pivers Island in Beaufort). It is military property, but is ...
Across the river to the east is the town of Beaufort, while to the south across Bogue Sound is Atlantic Beach. According to the United States Census Bureau , Morehead City has a total area of 8.5 square miles (22.1 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (17.7 km 2 ) is land and 1.7 square miles (4.3 km 2 ), or 19.55%, is water.
Gales Creek empties into Bogue Sound, which is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by Bogue Banks, part of North Carolina's barrier islands known as the Southern Outer Banks. A Presbyterian Church Camp, Camp Albemarle, is located near the mouth of Gales Creek at the former home of Henry Wilkins Hibbs, 1862–1942, the second mayor of St ...