Drum Inlet

… between Portsmouth Island on the NE and Core Banks on the SW in E Carteret County. Water from Pamlico and Core Sounds drains into the Atlantic Ocean through the inlet. Also known as Whalebone Inlet. Named for a species of fish. An inlet in the area appears on the De Graffenried map (French text), 1711, as Drum Passage. Another Drum Inlet appears on the Moseley map, 1733, now commonly referred to as Old Drum Inlet. The inlet shown on the Moseley map closed in the late eighteenth century.