Little Cumberland, one of Georgia’s Golden Isles, is a small, Holocene island (about three miles long and a mile wide) located just to the north of Cumberland Island from which it is separated by Christmas Creek. Little Cumberland is within the boundaries of the Cumberland Island National Seashore.

The Little Cumberland Turtle Project was started in 1964 by Dr. Jim Richardson of the University of Georgia. It is the oldest Loggerhead turtle project in the world, being matched only by a program in South Africa that started the same year. Little Cumberland is not currently considered a high-quality nesting beach because a high portion of the nesting habitat is categorized as erosional.