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Article: The golden isles of Georgia.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 1988
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The same forces that shaped the Carolina Sea Islands also formed the Golden Isles of Georgia. In many ways, Georgia's coast-tucked far back from the Gulf Stream and tracked by its own mile-wide, estuarine rivers-is an extension of the southernmost South Carolina coast.
There are hundreds of such islands and islets along the state's 137 miles of shoreline, but for the vacationer, only six of the largest are significant. They are, north to south, Tybee Island, near Savannah; Sea Island, the site of The Cloister hotel; historic, golf-pocked St. Simon's Island; secluded Little St. Simons; Jekyll Island and its restored "millionaires' village"; and Cumberland ...