SHORELINE EROSION AND THE LOST COLONYFootnote∗
∗ The authors wish to acknowledge support by the National Park Service.

ROBERT DOLAN Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

KENTON BOSSERMAN Graduate student, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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Failure to find the site of the famous Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, may be linked to shoreline erosion. The shoreline in the vicinity of the settlement has eroded as much as a quarter of a mile during the last 400 years.

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SHORELINE EROSION AND THE LOST COLONYFootnote∗
∗ The authors wish to acknowledge support by the National Park Service.