NC Gazetteer

Royal Shoal

A shoal in Carteret County and Hyde County
… in Pamlico Sound in NE Carteret and SE Hyde Counties. Extends NW in an arc from Beacon Island and obstructs the passage through Ocracoke Inlet. Appears as Ryals Shoal on the Moseley map, 1733, but by its present name on the Collet map, 1770.