Isabel Inlet

Date Uploaded: 06/14/2024

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Three images are compiled to show the creation of Isabel Inlet after Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Students use these images to calculate the width of the new Isabel Inlet based on the scale of the map, to speculate about what happened to the sand that was once a part of the barrier island in the space where Isabel Inlet was formed, and to think about what would have happened if Isabel Inlet had been left open after Hurricane Isabel.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Riggs, Stanley R., Dorothea V. D. P. Ames, and North Carolina Sea Grant College Program. Drowning The North Carolina Coast : Sea-Level Rise And Estuarine Dynamics. pg, 141, Figure 8-4-18. Panel A. A 1998 DOQQ shows the location of the Hatteras Overwash site and location of the future Isabel Inlet (red stars).... Panel B. Post-Hurricane Isabel aerial photograph taken on 9/25/03.... Panel C. Photograph of Isabel Inlet taken on 9/29/03 shows NC Hwy. 12 “going-to-sea” with Hatteras Village in the distance. North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, December 2003. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Accessed February 20, 2026.

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Isabel Inlet

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