{"id":140352,"date":"2019-06-30T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/cape-town-lens-looking-east-from-currituck-beach-light-corolla-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:43:51","slug":"cape-town-lens-looking-east-from-currituck-beach-light-corolla-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cape-town-lens-looking-east-from-currituck-beach-light-corolla-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Lens: Looking East from Currituck Beach Light, Corolla, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cape Town Cape Town Shipwreck<\/em> tagged image from photographer \u2013 Ken Lund<\/a> as published on Flickr.<\/p>\n

Looking East from Currituck Beach Light, Corolla, North Carolina<\/strong>
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Image by Ken Lund<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

The Outer Banks (also known as OBX) is a 200-mile (320-km) long string of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina and a small portion of Virginia, beginning in the southeastern corner of Virginia Beach on the east coast of the United States. They cover most of the North Carolina coastline, separating the Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The Outer Banks is a major tourist destination and is known for its temperate climate and wide expanse of open beachfront. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore has four campgrounds where visitors may camp.<\/p>\n

The Wright brothers\u2019 first flight in a powered, heavier-than-air vehicle took place on the Outer Banks on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills near the seafront town of Kitty Hawk. The Wright Brothers National Monument commemorates the historic flights, and First Flight Airport is a small, general-aviation airfield located there.<\/p>\n

The English Roanoke Colony\u2014where the first person of English descent, Virginia Dare, was born on American soil\u2014vanished from Roanoke Island in 1587. The Lost Colony, written and performed to commemorate the original colonists, is the longest running outdoor drama in the United States and its theater acts as a cultural focal point for much of the Outer Banks.<\/p>\n

The treacherous seas off the Outer Banks and the large number of shipwrecks that have occurred there have given these seas the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is located in Hatteras Village near the United States Coast Guard facility and Hatteras ferry.<\/p>\n

en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outer_Banks<\/a><\/p>\n

en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Click here to submit your Cape Town News<\/a> \u2013 free.<\/p>\n

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\nQuick Cape Town Fact:<\/strong> The Cape of Good Hope used to be called the Cape of Storms \u2013 The waves and storms caused the explorer Bartholomeu Dias to name the peninsula \u2018Cape of Storms\u2019 in 1488. Later the Portuguese king changed the name to \u2018Cape of Good Hope\u2019 to make clear to other colonial powers that as from this point they were close to the sea route to India.<\/p>\n

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