Onslow Bay is an indentation of the

North Carolina North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...

coast, between Cape Fear in the south and Cape Lookout in the north. Thirteen

barrier island Barrier islands are a Coast#Landforms, coastal landform, a type of dune, dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast. They usually occur in chains, consisting of an ...

s form the shore of the bay. It is part of the open

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and affords no protection from oceanic swells.

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Description of Onslow Bay Coastal Climatology
Bays of North Carolina Bodies of water of Brunswick County, North Carolina Bodies of water of Carteret County, North Carolina {{CarteretCountyNC-geo-stub