LOST COLONY

By Adam S. Eterovich

CROATAMUNG ISLAND: Croatamung, an island shown on White's map, 1585, in what is now a part of Currituck Banks in east Currituck County. Smith, 1624, calls it Arundells Island; Comberford, 1657, makes it Lucks Island. As the latter is what the north boundary of the Carolina territory granted to the Lords Proprietors in 1663. See also Lucks Island. From the North Carolina Gazetteer.

CROATAN: Community in East Craven County settled about 1800. From the North Carolina Gazetteer.

CROATAN INDIAN PARK: On Roanoke Island.

CROATAN NATIONAL FOREST: Inparts of Carteret, Craven, and Jones Counties. Established 1933. North Carolina Gazetteer.

CROATAN SOUND: Croatan Sound connects Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds between Roanoke Island and the mainland of Dare County. Appears as Occam (Algonquian Indian, akami, "the opposite shore") on Whites map, 1590, and as The Narrows on the Moseley map, 1733. North Carolina Gazetteer.

CROATAN SOUND: Twentie mile into the River: if the identification of the landing-place, made on p. 132, is sound, the party apparently sailed from Port Ferdinando South-westwards into Pamlico Sound, then northwards through Croatan Sound, and changed course eastwards to round the northern end of Roanoke.

CROATAN TOWNSHIP: Central Dare County on the mainland. North Carolina Gazetteer.

CROATOAN ISLAND: The island in the CarolinaOuter Banks extending from just north of Cape Hatteras to about half-way along the present Ocracoke Island. It was named by Lane 'My Lord Admiral Island' in honour of Lord Howard of Effingham, created Lord High Admiral in 1585, and probably a subscriber to the 1585 expedition. From Cape Hatteras southward to the present Hatteras Inlet the island is still heavily wooded,and represents what a much greater part of the Outer Banks looked like in the sixteenth century.

CROATOAN ISLAND: A name applied by John White on his map of 1585, to the south portion of Hatteras Island (Dare County) and a portion of Ocracoke Island (Hyde County). Hatteras Inlet, now dividing this portion of the Outer Banks into two islands, was opened in 1846. Ralph Lane, governor of the first Roanoke colony, named the island "My Lord Admirals Iland" in honor of Lord Howard of Effingham, created Lord High Admiral in 1585. By 1657 Comberford showed the island as "Chowanoke." Smith, in 1624, had called it Abbots Island. The name Croatoan was derived from the Indian village which was on the present Cape Hatteras. North Carolina Gazetteer