The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the ... They put John White’s map on a ... Sound, less than 100 miles from the Roanoke ...

Secret in 400-year-old map may have finally ... end of Albemarle Sound, less than 100 miles from the Roanoke settlers ... with the words "Croatoan" on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ...

The fates of the Roanoke colonists, who vanished from the banks of what is now North Carolina in the late 16th century, have never been fully settled.

Working on a bluff overlooking Albemarle Sound, 50 miles west of Roanoke Island, ... when researchers noticed a patch on a watercolor map of eastern North Carolina painted by White.

Tanya Basu from National Geographic reports that Malcolm LeCompte, a research associate at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, came up with the idea to use GPR alongside White's map ...

The search began when an anxious Englishman named John White waded ashore on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island 425 years ago this month. Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony by Sir ...