Holly Shelter Swamp

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
  1. "Angola Swamp". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  2. Simpson, Bland. "Swamps". NCpedia. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. Simpson, Bland. "Pocosins". NCpedia. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  4. "Holly Shelter Game Land" (PDF). North Carolina Game Lands. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. Hargan, Jim (2011). Explorer's Guide North Carolina. Countryman Press. pp. 113–114. ISBN 978-0881508451.

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