Saint Helena Sound

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Saint Helena Sound is a coastal inlet in the Lowcountry region South Carolina, located along the Atlantic Ocean between Beaufort and Colleton counties. Located within the relatively undeveloped ACE Basin, the sound consists of the mouths of the Ashepoo, Combahee, and the south branch of the Edisto rivers, of which the ACE moniker derives from. The inlet is located 15-mile (24 km)east of Beaufort, between Edisto Island and Hunting Island. At its widest point, Saint Helena Sound is 7.5-mile (12.1 km) across.^[1] The Intracoastal Waterway crosses the sound. Much of lands surrounding St. Helena Sound has been preserved through the St. Helena Sound Heritage Preserve and the larger ACE Basin project.

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^ Columbia University Press. "Saint Helena Sound". Bartleby.com. Retrieved 2 November 2006.

Protected Areas of South Carolina

Federal

National Parks	Congaree

National Historic Parks, Sites & Monuments	Charles Pinckney NHS Fort Sumter NM Ninety Six NHS

National Military Parks and Battlefields	Cowpens NB Kings Mountain NMP

National Trails	Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail

National Forests	Francis Marion Sumter

National Wildlife Refuges	Cape Romain Carolina Sandhills Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin Pinckney Island Santee Savannah Tybee Waccamaw

National Estuarine Research Reserves	Ashepoo Combahee Edisto Basin North Inlet-Winyah Bay

Wilderness Areas	Cape Romain Congaree Ellicott Rock Hell Hole Bay Little Wambaw Swamp Wambaw Creek Wambaw Swamp

Wild and Scenic Rivers	Chattooga River

State

State Parks	Andrew Jackson Baker Creek Barnwell Caesars Head Cheraw Chester Colleton Devils Fork Edisto Beach Givhans Ferry Goodale Hickory Knob Hunting Island Huntington Beach Jones Gap Kings Mountain Lake Warren Landsford Canal Lee Little Pee Dee Myrtle Beach Oconee Paris Mountain Poinsett Santee Sesquicentennial Table Rock

State Historic Sites	Charles Towne Landing Colonial Dorchester Hampton Plantation Musgrove Mill Oconee Station Redcliffe Plantation Rivers Bridge Rose Hill Plantation

State Recreation & Natural Areas	Aiken State Natural Area Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area Croft State Natural Area Dreher Island State Recreation Area Hamilton Branch State Recreation Area Keowee-Toxaway State Natural Area Lake Greenwood State Recreation Area Lake Hartwell State Recreation Area Lake Wateree State Recreation Area Lee State Natural Area Sadlers Creek State Recreation Area Woods Bay State Natural Area

State Forests	Harbison Manchester Poe Creek Sand Hills Wee Tee

Wildlife Management Areas	Bear Island Wildlife Management Area Belfast Wildlife Management Area Bonneau Ferry Wildlife Management Area Campbell's Crossroads Wildlife Management Area Crackerneck Wildlife Preserve Donnelley Wildlife Management Area Draper Wildlife Management Area Edisto River Wildlife Management Area Fant's Grove Wildlife Management Area Gray Court Wildlife Management Area Hickory Top Wildlife Management Area James Ross Wildlife Reservation Jim Timmerman Natural Resources Area Keowee Wildlife Management Area Mason Wildlife Preserve McBee Wildlife Management Area McConnells Tract Wildlife Management Palachucola Wildlife Management Area Pee Dee Wildlife Management Area Samworth Wildlife Management Area Santee-Delta Wildlife Management Area Thurmond Wildlife Management Area Turkey Creek Wildlife Management Area Turtle Island Wildlife Management Area Webb Wildlife Center/Preserve Woodbury Wildlife Management Area Worth Mountain Wildlife Management Area

v t e The Lowcountry of South Carolina

Counties	Beaufort County Colleton County Hampton County Jasper County Charleston region

Major communities	Beaufort Bluffton Estill Hampton Hardeeville Hilton Head Island Port Royal Ridgeland Sun City Walterboro Varnville Yemassee

Sea Islands	Daufuskie Island Edisto Island Fripp Island Harbor Island Hilton Head Island Hunting Island Lady's Island St. Helena Island

History & culture	Historic places Beaufort (history of - historic district) Cuisine Gullah culture Port Royal Experiment Sea Islands Hurricane

Military installations	Laurel Bay MCAS Beaufort MCRD Parris Island Beaufort Naval Hospital

Natural areas	ACE Basin Pinckney Island NWR Savannah NWR Sea Islands state parks (Colleton - Hunting Island - Lake Warren)

Other articles	BJWSA Hargray Sea Pines TCL USC-Beaufort RBC Heritage