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5 unusual facts about Outer banks


Dick Burrus

Burrus was born in North Carolina's Outer Banks, where his family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams.

False Cape State Park

As part of The Outer Banks of Virginia, it lies on the Currituck Banks Peninsula, which is a mile-wide barrier spit between the Back Bay of the Currituck Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.

North Carolina Highway 343

The highway's northern stretch between US 17 in South Mills and US 158 in Camden is frequently used in the summer months as an alternative route to congested NC 168/US 158 by Outer Banks-bound travelers from the Hampton Roads metro area of Virginia.

Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast

A number of oil companies bought federal leases offshore North Carolina, but in 1990 the US Secretary of Commerce denied Mobil Oil permission to drill after Congress passed the North Carolina Outer Banks Protection Act, prohibiting leasing and drilling on federal seabed offshore from North Carolina.

WCTI-TV

The new tower expanded the station's secondary coverage as far east as the Outer Banks, as far south as Wilmington and as far west as the Triangle (including Rocky Mount and much of eastern Raleigh).


3rd Battalion 25th Marines

Major operations that the battalion participated in during its deployment included Operations Matador, New Market, Spear, Sword, River Bridge, Outer Banks, and Quick Strike.

Doughton Park

Mountains-to-Sea Trail: Commonly called the MST, this long-distance trail passes through the park, as it transverses North Carolina from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks.

Roanoke-Hatteras tribe

The Roanoke-Hatteras Indian Tribe are descendants of the historic Hatteras, Roanoke, and other Algonkian speaking Indians who occupied Hatteras and Roanoke Islands, the Outer Banks, and the mainland of Hyde and Dare Counties.

Stony Point Fashion Park

Stony Point finally opened on September 18, 2003, the day Hurricane Isabel made landfall in nearby Outer Banks.


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Corolla, North Carolina

Development of Currituck's Northern Outer Banks began in 1967 when investors from Sandbridge, Virginia, put together an investment group to purchase undeveloped land.

Diamond City

Diamond City, North Carolina, an abandoned whaling village once the most populous on the Outer Banks

Hazard mitigation in the Outer Banks

From the folklore of Blackbeard's pirates and the history of over a thousand shipwrecks that have occurred in the Graveyard of the Atlantic to the birth of flight engineered by the Wright Brothers, the history of the islands have conducted much attention towards the Outer Banks.

Hook Wood

This is an ancient estuarine woodland of sessile oak Quercus petraea on the steep outer banks of the Western Cleddau estuary.

Theatre of Dare

In 2009, just before the opening of Little Women the musical, the Theatre of Dare received a grant from the Outer Banks Community Foundation.