- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- St. Catherines Island
- Creator:
- Seabrook, Charles
- Date of Original:
- 2006-10-13
- Subject:
- Barrier islands--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Liberty County, Saint Catherines Island, 31.65689, -81.15149
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about St. Catherines Island, Georgia. St. Catherines Island is a privately owned barrier island situated midway on the Georgia coast. Located in Liberty County about fifty miles south of Savannah, the undeveloped island is about ten miles long and one to three miles wide. Its wide sandy beach is nearly eleven miles long. More than half of the island's 14,640 acres are tidal marsh and wetlands. About 6,700 acres are densely forested upland, with pine and live oak being the predominant species. It is also the site of one of the most important archaeological investigations along North America's Atlantic Coast.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/st-catherines-island/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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