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7 unusual facts about Cape Hatteras


1851 Atlantic hurricane season

On September 13, a tropical storm was first observed about 225 miles (360 km) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Alpheus heterochaelis

The bigclaw snapping shrimp is found in tropical and semitropical waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, Bermuda, and the western Atlantic Ocean from Cape Hatteras south to Florida and Brazil.

General Lyon

On March 17, 1865, two days into the voyage, the ship hit rough weather off Cape Hatteras and a fire broke out in the engine room, quickly spreading through the ship.

Porcellana sayana

Porcellana sayana is found along the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Hatteras (United States) to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Sam Medysky

After spending the 2009 winter training in Brazil, Sam thrust himself onto the professional kiteboarding scene after winning a wild card entry to the 2009 Real Triple-S Invitational, a competition featuring the top professional kiteboarders from across the World held each year in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

STS-36

Flight rules that prohibited overflight of land were suspended, with the trajectory taking the vehicle over or near Cape Hatteras, Cape Cod, and parts of Canada.

Walter Lofthouse Dean

During this voyage, which was confined to the North Atlantic ground off Cape Hatteras, he made valuable sketches and studies of present-day whaling operations.


Atlantic Plain

The Atlantic Plain is generally gently dipping undeformed Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments, with the sedimentary wedge thickening toward the sea, reaching a maximum thickness of about 3 kilometers (10,000 ft) in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries

Cape Hatteras, the easternmost point in the Confederacy, is within sight of the Gulf Stream, which moves at a speed of about 3 knots (1.5 m/s) at this latitude.

Cuba during World War II

On the morning of December 4, 1943, the 5,441 ton Libertad was sailing about seventy-five miles southwest of North Carolina's Cape Hatteras, with Convoy KN-280, when the U-129 attacked her.

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue

We meet the Henry family as they are driving from their small western Pennsylvania town to their new lives in Cape Hatteras.

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue is a 2003 children's novel by Jack Gantos, chronicling his 4th grade year in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, only calling the main character Jack Henry instead of Jack Gantos.

Maggie Valley, North Carolina

In April 1991, mass murderer Peter Lundin strangled his mother to death in Maggie Valley, and with the help of his father he buried her body on a beach at Cape Hatteras, where it was found eight months later.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The Federal government's stance at the time was that the Great Lakes were the "third coast" and had to be preserved much like Cape Hatteras or Big Sur, which are National Seashores.


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