Boneyard on Blackbeard Island
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| Type: | Color photographs |
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| Title: | Boneyard on Blackbeard Island |
| Description: | This photograph shows the remains of dead trees, mostly live oaks, jut out of the sand like sculpture in "The Boneyard" on Blackbeard Island, Georgia. The term boneyard is used to describe the areas of beach on barrier islands where old trees are buried and exposed over and over as the tides change the shape of the islands. Blackbeard Island was owned by a consortium of French investors for eleven years beginning in 1789. In 1800 the island was sold at public auction to the U.S. Navy Department as a federal timber reserve. |
| Subjects: | Beaches--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Live oak--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Seagrasses--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Barrier islands--Georgia | Trees--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Atlantic Ocean | Shorelines--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Dead trees--Georgia--Blackbeard Island | Blackbeard Island (Ga.) | McIntosh County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Rights and Usage: | Courtesy of United States Fish and Wildlife Service. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-929 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-4161 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |