Croatan Sound
Croatan Sound is an inlet in Dare County, North Carolina. It connects Pamlico Sound with Albemarle Sound, and is bordered to the east by Roanoke Island; Roanoke Sound is on the other side of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: inlet on the North Carolina coast
- Also known as: “Croetan Sound”, “Occam”, and “The Narrows”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manns Harbor and Manteo.
Manns Harbor
Village
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Manns Harbor is a census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 821.
Manteo
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Manteo is a town in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Much of the fun in visiting Manteo, as with most of the Outer Banks, is visiting during the summer.
Wanchese
Village
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wanchese is a census-designated place on Roanoke Island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It was named after Wanchese, the last known ruler of the Roanoke Native American tribe encountered by English colonists in the sixteenth century.
Croatan Sound
- Categories: landform and body of water
- Location: Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.85761° or 35° 51′ 27″ northLongitude
-75.70644° or 75° 42′ 23″ westOpen location code
8776V75V+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 10301101535OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
4462526Wikidata ID
Q5187032
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Satellite Map
Discover Croatan Sound from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Spanish—“Croatan Sound” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Краатанскі заліў”
- Cebuano: “Croatan Sound”
- Spanish: “Sonido Croatan”
- “Croatan Sound”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Baumtown and California.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Coastal Studies Institute and North Carolina Shipyard.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Croatan Sound”. Photo: southernfoodwaysalliance, CC BY 2.0.