Figure Eight Island 2016 the Figure 8 Island Homeowners Association announced that the proposal to pursue a Terminal Groin did not pass and would not proceed. In June 2001 author Wanda Canada published a murder mystery novel, titled "Island Murders", which takes place on Figure Eight Island. Figure Eight Island Figure Eight Island is a North Carolina barrier island just north of Wrightsville Beach, widely known as an affluent summer colony and vacation desitination. The island is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Area, and lies between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. As a private island, Figure Eight can only be reached
Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony penal colony to produce wine. Lamberto Frescobaldi, the current Marchesi de'Frescobaldi and 30th generation of the Tuscan winemaking family, saw potential in an east-facing plot of land on the island's mineral-rich vineyard soils and decided to purchase the land. The Frescobaldis' contracted with the penal colony to work the vineyard, providing training and expertize to the inmates, and paying the inmates a wage in exchange for the rights to the sell the wine produced on the island. In 2013, the penal colony released 225 cases of a white "Denominazione d’Origine Controllata" (DOC) wine labeled as "Frescobaldi per Gorgona" (or simply