The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina ... the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images An examination of the map by ...

The above diagram will show more clearly than the large map we gave yesterday the position and some of the relations of Roanoke Island, of whose capture we have now definite intelligence.

A clue uncovered in a long-forgotten map kicked off a reexamination ... been that the colonists abandoned Roanoke and traveled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan ...

The area is split into three regions, according to the Visitors Bureau: the Northern Beaches, Roanoke Island and Hatteras Island. You'll also find Ocracoke Island farther south, but it's not as ...

The Roanoke Island mystery may have been solved ... believes could have only belonged to the Roanoke refugees. The map was painted by John White between 1585 and 1586. Picture: British Museum ...