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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 ."
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
North Carolina Highway 58 leads west from Atlantic Beach, running the length of Bogue Banks to Emerald Isle. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town of Atlantic Beach has a total area of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km 2 ), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km 2 ), or 12.87%, is water.
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.
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 ...
The B. Cameron Langston Bridge over Bogue Sound. NC 58 begins from the visitor center parking lot at Fort Macon State Park—formerly County Road 1190—and begins heading west along Bogue Banks. It passes through Atlantic Beach, Pine Knoll Shores, Indian Beach, and Emerald Isle as it runs along the Bogue Banks as a main highway. Approaching ...
Inserted in a fence completely spanning a narrow point in the island, it would tend to sequester deer to one end, away from farms and crops. The narrowest point on the island is, in fact, the village of Salter Path. There is the possibility it is named for the path that would inevitably lead to the salter, the only passage through the fence.
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) [2] North Carolina state park in Carteret County, North Carolina, in the United States.Located on Bogue Banks, in the town of Pine Knoll Shores, the natural area protects the barrier island's only remaining intact maritime forest. [4]