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Atlantic: North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia

Wild horses graze in the dunes near beach houses in Corolla, on the Outer Banks.

water called sounds . The two largest are Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound. The Roanoke and the Chowan Rivers empty into the Albemarle Sound, while the Pamlico and Neuse Rivers empty into the Pamlico Sound. On the mainland, the Outer Coastal Plain is low, flat land with many wetlands areas. The Inner Coastal Plain is higher and drier. Here

Coastal Plain includes the Outer Banks, a series of low sandy barrier islands. Within the Outer Banks are three capes , Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, and Cape Fear. This area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because so many shipwrecks have occurred here. The Outer Banks separate the Atlantic Ocean from seven bodies of