Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula
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![]() Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula is the largest peninsula on the North Carolina seacoast (right) and includes 5 counties. | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
Region | Outer Banks |
Area | |
• Total | 1,200 sq mi (3,200 km2) |
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.
Much of the peninsula is covered with marshland. The pocosin marshlands of the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula drain into the Alligator River, an important link in the intracoastal waterway.
Forty four percent of the peninsula is owned by timber companies, and another twenty one percent of the peninsula is owned by agricultural corporations.[citation needed] This led to a great deal of deforestation on the peninsula in the 1980s, to the extent that only one third of the peninsula's pocosin marshlands continue to exist in their unaltered form. Soybeans, corn, pines, cattle, and hogs were all raised on the peninsula. Many of the larger farms have gone bankrupt, but some pine farms continue to exist on the peninsula.
Towns and Cities
- Bath
- Belhaven
- Columbia
- Creswell
- Engelhard
- Fairfield
- Manns Harbor
- Pantego
- Plymouth
- Roper
- Stumpy Point
- Swan Quarter
External links
- Where is the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula - Dare County (map) lies out on the far tip of the peninsula.
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35°43′34″N 76°01′52″W / 35.726°N 76.031°W / 35.726; -76.031
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- Bodie Island
- Knotts Island
- Monkey Island
- Mary Island
- Colington Island
- Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula
- Roanoke Island
- Pea Island
- Hatteras Island
- No Ache Island
- Cape Hatteras
- Shelly Island
- Ocracoke Island
- Beacon Island
- Portsmouth Island
- Core Banks
- Cape Lookout
- Bays
- Onslow Bay
- Raleigh Bay
- Back Bay
- Knotts Island Bay
- National Seashores
- Cape Hatteras National Seashore
- Cape Lookout National Seashore
- Wildlife Refuges
- Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
- Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge
- Currituck National Wildlife Refuge
- Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
- State Parks
- False Cape State Park
- Jockey's Ridge State Park
- State Coastal Reserves
- Kitty Hawk Woods
- Buxton Woods
- Preserves
- Nags Head Woods Preserve
- Roanoke Island Marshes Preserve
- Museums, zoos, and institutes
- North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island
- Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
- University of North Carolina - Coastal Studies Institute
- Other
- Mountains-to-Sea Trail
- Pine Island Audubon Sanctuary
- Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
- Wright Brothers National Memorial
- Currituck Banks North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Run Hill State Natural Area
- Wildlife
- Banker horse
- Red wolf
- Bridges
- Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge
- Marc Basnight Bridge
- Herbert C. Bonner Bridge
- Wright Memorial Bridge
- William B. Umstead Bridge
- Washington Baum Bridge
- Melvin R. Daniels Bridge
- Rodanthe Bridge
- Mid-Currituck Bridge
- Captain Richard Etheridge Bridge
- Events and places
- Pea Island Life-Saving Station
- Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station
- Roanoke Colony
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Torpedo Alley
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Hatteras Weather Bureau Station
- Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island
- People
- Roanoke people
- Croatan
- Wanchese
- Manteo
- John White
- Richard Grenville
- Blackbeard
- Raleigh
- Virginia Dare
- Marc Basnight
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