Carolina Bays

… oval-shaped lakes, swamps, pocosins, savannahs, and peat beds in SE North Carolina, E South Carolina, and NE Georgia. Several explanations have been advanced as to the origin of the Carolina Bays, but the most generally accepted one is that they were formed thousands of years ago by a shower of meteorites. White Lake, Jones Lake, Singletary Lake, and Lake Waccamaw are Carolina Bays. There also are numerous others, many of which no longer contain water.