Roanoke Inlet

… former inlet from the Atlantic Ocean into Roanoke Sound through Bodie Island S of the present location of Nags Head, NE Dare County. Inlet was the original N boundary of Bodie Island. Opened prior to 1657 and closed in 1795, according to a note on the Kerr map, 1882. Appears on the Ogilby map, 1671.