Holly Shelter Swamp is a pocosin in southern coastal North Carolina near Jacksonville, in Pender County. Much of the swamp is included in the 63,494-acre (25,695 ha) Holly Shelter Game Land, administered by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The Bear Garden tract of the northern swamp has been logged and has a road grid. The swamp is drained by the Northeast Cape Fear River.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
edit- ↑ "Angola Swamp". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ↑ Simpson, Bland. "Swamps". NCpedia. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ↑ Simpson, Bland. "Pocosins". NCpedia. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Holly Shelter Game Land" (PDF). North Carolina Game Lands. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ↑ Hargan, Jim (2011). Explorer's Guide North Carolina. Countryman Press. pp. 113–114. ISBN 978-0881508451.