NC Gazetteer

Bodie Island

Also known as: Duggs Island, Cow Island
A island in Dare County
… (pronounced "body"), one of the Outer Banks, E Dare County. N boundary was formerly New Inlet, now the area around Kitty Hawk. Bounded on the S by Oregon Inlet. Mentioned by John Lawson in 1700. Appears on the Moll map, 1729. Cow Island and Duggs Island, also shown on the Moll map, are now joined with and a part of Bodie Island. See also Etacrewac.