Cumberland Island is one of the Sea Islands. It is located on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia and is part of Camden County ( 30°51′N, 81°27′W). The island is 17.5 miles (28 km) long, with an area of 36,415 acres (147.37 km²), including 16,850 acres (68.19 km²) of marsh, mudflats, and tidal creeks. There is no bridge to the island; the most convenient boat access is from the town of St. Marys, Georgia. The Sea Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties Libertarian Party State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of... Camden County is a county located in the Georgia. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, cat tails, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ... Mudflats in Brewster, Massachusetts extending hundreds of yards offshore at the low tide. ... In British English (and also in many other countries in the Commonwealth), a creek is a tidal water channel. ... A log bridge in the French Alps near Vallorcine. ... A boat is a craft or vessel designed to float on, and provide transport over, water. ... St. ...

Most of Cumberland Island is part of a dump, but there are also many private properties. Much of the public land is managed as wilderness area. The Wilderness Act protects exceptional undisturbed natural areas and scenery, such as in the Ansel Adams Wilderness On federal lands in the United States, Congress may designate a wilderness area under the provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964. ...

Cumberland is one of Georgia's barrier islands, the largest in terms of continuously exposed land area. The National Park Service limits how many humans can be on the island at any one time: up to 300 visitors per day, and campers may stay only 7 nights. Sand bars in the Mississippi River at Arkansas and Mississippi A bar is a linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. ... Car camping is camping in a tent, but nearby the car for easier access and for supply storage. ...

The island has three major ecosystem regions. Along the western edge of the island there are large areas of saltwater marshes. One will also see gnarled live oak trees covered with Spanish moss and the palmetto plants at the edge of Cumberland's dense maritime forest. Cumberland Island's most famous ecosystem is its beach, which stretches over 17 miles (27 km) from Long Point on the north to the southern tip opposite Florida's Amelia Island. Along this long, uninterrupted stretch of white sand, one may see wild horses, birds, and other wildlife. This area is also an important nesting area for loggerhead sea turtles. Also, there is an outhouse on the isle that functions as a museum nowadays, and chronicles the history of Cumberland and its vast residents. An ecosystem, a contraction of ecological and system, refers to the collection of biotic and abiotic components and processes that comprise and govern the behavior of some defined subset of the biosphere. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, cat tails, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ... Binomial name Quercus virginiana Mill. ... Binomial name Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) closely resembles its namesake (Usnea, or beard moss), yet is not a moss at all. ... Binomial name Sabal palmetto (Walt. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta—liverworts Anthocerotophyta—hornworts Bryophyta—mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns Pinophyta—conifers Cycadophyta—cycads Ginkgophyta—ginkgo Gnetophyta—gnetae Magnoliophyta—flowering plants... An oceanic climate (also called marine west coast climate and maritime climate) is the climate typically found along the west coasts at the middle latitudes of all the worlds continents, and in southeastern Australia; similar climates are also found at high elevations within the tropics. ... The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Amelia Island is the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands stretching from North Carolina to Florida. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... Binomial name Caretta caretta Linnaeus, 1758 The Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) is a sea turtle and the only member of the genus Caretta. ...

Cumberland Island is really two islands--the island proper and Little Cumberland Island--connected by a marsh. Little Cumberland is privately owned and not generally open to the public. Historically, Cumberland Island was in private hands, but large areas were deeded to the National Parks Foundation by members or heirs of the Carnegie family in 1971. Other lands in private ownership were purchased with funds provided by the Mellon Foundation and Congress, and in 1972 Cumberland Island was designated a national seashore. A small number of people--principally descendants of property owners--still have houses on the western and northern regions of the island, though only a very few people actually live year-round on the island. Many, however, have sold their property to the National Park Service (NPS), which in turn leases the property back to the former landowners during their lifetime. Eventually, the property will revert to the Park Service and become part of the national seashore. Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, a major and widely respected philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. ... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. ...

During the 17th century, Cumberland Island was part of the Mocama missionary province of Spanish Florida. Mocama was a Native American chiefdom that became part of Spanish Floridas missionary system in the late 16th century. ... Spanish Florida refers to the Spanish colony of Florida. ...

A ferry runs twice a day to Cumberland Island from the mainland. The only other way to reach the island is by private boat. Visitors cannot bring vehicles or bikes, and there are no paved roads or trails. Visitors walk everywhere they go, but Cumberland Island is less than six miles (10 km) wide at the widest point. The eastern seashore is 17.5 miles (28 km) of continuous beach. There is one camping area with running water and bathrooms with cold showers; the other camping sites do not have facilities. All food, ice and supplies must be shipped from the mainland, as there are no stores on the island.

Large tracts of the island were purchased for winter retreats during America's Gilded Age. The estates include: The Breakers, a gilded-age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. ...

• Dungeness Ruins
• Greyfield
• Plum Orchard
• Stafford

Plum Orchard is an estate located in the middle of the western shore of Cumberland Island, Georgia (30°51′21″ N 81°27′54″ W). ...

Dungeness ruins

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Reference

• Ed Jackson, Senior Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government (CVIOG's Cumberland Island website), University of Georgia.