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- Cape Fear estuaries: Introduction
- In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 1
- A quiet afternoon on the dock overlooking the Cape Fear estuary, fishing with friends. A gentle breeze clatters the marsh reeds and sends ripples floating across the water. A vision of stability and tranquility. Unfortunately, this vision is entirely misleading....
- By Steve Keith.
- Bald Head Island
- We have arrived at last to the Atlantic Ocean. On the left side of the inlet is Bald Head Island and on the right is Fort Caswell on the eastern tip of Oak Island. In the foreground is Soutport. The inlet is about one mile across. Notice that the boat traffic...
- By Steve Keith.
- The search for El Dorado
- The legend of El Dorado predates the arrival of Spaniards in South America. The Chibcha people of present-day Colombia apparently performed an annual ritual where the leader was coated in fine gold dust, which he then washed off in a lake during a solemn ceremony....
- By William M. Wisser.
- The search for El Dorado
- In Sir Walter Raleigh and South America, page 4
- The legend of El Dorado predates the arrival of Spaniards in South America. The Chibcha people of present-day Colombia apparently performed an annual ritual where the leader was coated in fine gold dust, which he then washed off in a lake during a ceremony....
- By William M. Wisser.
- How is coastal sand formed into barrier islands?
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 2
- Coastal sand is organized into barrier islands when three conditions are met: There is a supply of sand sufficient to form islands; sea level is rising; and there are winds and waves with sufficient energy to move the sand around....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Small and large sand volume islands
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 1
- This field trip follows another in this series, Small Sand Volume Islands. Readers should plan to take these trips sequentially, to compare the two types of islands. The thesis of both trips is that the volume of sand that comprises...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- A land of many wetlands
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 1
- Eastern North Carolina is a land of many wetlands. More than forty different types have been identified by botanists with the state's Natural Heritage Program. Geographically, this wetland heritage was achieved in the most straightforward way: all of the land...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Why does North Carolina have so many, and so many kinds of, monadnocks?
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 2
- North Carolina has more than a dozen monadnocks scattered among its Blue Ridge mountains, and another ten or more on its Piedmont Plateau. These monadnocks formed during dramatic and diverse events that occurred as the state's crust formed. Most of these geologic...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How were the Jocassee Gorges formed?
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 2
- Basically, erosion formed the Jocassee Gorges. For most of its length, the eastern continental divide, which separates land that drains to the Atlantic Ocean from land that drains to the Gulf of Mexico, runs northeast to southwest parallel to the Blue Ridge...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- Hurricane Floyd - satellite image
- False-color satellite image of Hurricane Floyd, Sept. 14, 1999.
- Format: image/photograph
- Satellite image and map of the North Carolina coast
- Format: image/map
- Circa 1714 map of Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina
- Johann Baptist Homann's hand-colored engraved map Virginia Marylandia et Carolina... was first published in a 1714 atlas, and was re-published numerous times thereafter. The map depicts Homann's interpretation of the American...
- Format: image/map
- The life and death of Blackbeard the Pirate
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.8
- Captain Blackbeard (born Edward Teach) was one of the most notorious pirates of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1710s. As captain of the ship "Queen Anne's Revenge," Blackbeard gained a reuptation for his frightening appearance as much as for his violence and cruelty. Between his adventures at sea, Blackbeard often returned to North Carolina and was rumored to have a house in Ocracoke. He enjoyed the tolerance of the North Carolina governor who did little to protect the people of the state from Blackbeard's attacks. Exasperated, North Carolinians appealed to the governor of Virginia, who sent a crew of British Naval officers to fight the pirate. On November 22, 1718, the crew succeeded in killing the infamous Blackbeard.
- Format: article
- Natural diversity
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.1
- North Carolina has within its borders the highest mountains east of the Mississippi River, a broad, low-lying coastal area, and all the land in between. That variety of landforms, elevations, and climates has produced as diverse a range of ecosystems as any state in the United States. It has also influenced the way people have lived in North Carolina for thousands of years.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The natural history of North Carolina
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.2
- If the five billion years of the earth's history were condensed into a single day, humans would have arrived in North Carolina just two tenths of a second before midnight! This article summarizes the major biological and geological events in North Carolina's history and explains how the land and environment of today came to be.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1
- In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Columbian Exchange at a glance
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.2
- Countless animals, plants, and microorganisms crossed the Atlantic Ocean with European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This chart lists some of the organisms that had the greatest impact on human society worldwide.
- Format: article
- Spiny dogfish
- The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is a species of small shark, typically growing to three or four feet in length. Spiny dogfish are typically found in bays and estuaries. Their habitat in the western Atlantic Ocean ranges from Greenland...
- Format: image/photograph
