Once 27 acres, Shelly Island disappeared as easily as she arrived.
Shelly Island is no more. As predicted by scientists who study coastal processes, the sandbar that rose from the sea last spring would be an ephemeral thing, and the series of storms that marched across the Outer Banks ended its brief life. Live Science has the story.
“Blink and you’ll miss it: A mysterious island that emerged off the coast of North Carolina overnight is gone once again, new satellite images reveal.
Shelly Island, a sandbar that appeared seemingly overnight off the coast of Cape Point on Cape Hatteras National Seashore in 2017, has disappeared again, due to a series of punishing storms that battered the coast and redistributed the sand off the shoreline. The new images, taken on Feb. 16, were captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite, which launched in 2013 as a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. ”
[box type=”bio”] Shelly Island never stood much of a chance of surviving, and as predicted, it has sunk beneath the waters of the Atlantic. Get the rest of this story at Live Science.[/box]