McKay Island, North Carolina
| McKay Island | ||
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| Waters | Cape Fear River | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 33 '55 " N , 79 ° 2' 25" W | |
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| length | 1.15 km | |
| width | 300 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
McKay Island is an island in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina . The small island is located in the upper Cape Fear about three kilometers below the confluence of its two source rivers and about five kilometers above the Buckhorn Dam . It is a good one kilometer long, up to 300 meters wide, wooded and uninhabited.
The upper reaches of the Cape Fear River forms the border of Counties Lee and Chatham , this border runs almost centrally over McKay Island.