Paquiac

… name given by John White on his maps of 1585 and 1590 to the section of Hatteras Island S of Cape Kenrick and extending almost to modern Cape Hatteras, SE Dare County. The section lay between present Chicamacomico Banks and Kinnakeet Banks. The name Paquiac is an Algonquian Indian term for "it is shallow," describing the adjacent Pamlico Sound.