A gravestone marking an early 20th-century burial is shown at the cemetery of North Carolina’s Shackleford Banks. The small graveyard is on the north side of the barrier island. It’s the last significant remnant of human inhabitation on Shackleford Banks. Before its abandonment in the early 1900s, European colonists had lived in settlements on the island for over a century. The rough and rugged coastal denizens were referred to as “Ca’e Bankers.” Click the above image to enlarge, click to view my high-resolution photo gallery, or click to browse my travel guides for the Outer Banks of North Carolina.