Few ships wreck today, but storms still uncover the ruins of the old wrecks that lie along the beaches of the Outer Banks.Ĭape Hatteras National Seashore protects parts of three barrier islands: Bodie Island, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island. Others staffed lighthouses built to guide mariners. As early as the 1870s, villagers served in the United States Life-Saving Service. In the past 400 years, the graveyard has claimed many lives, but island villagers saved many. Diamond Shoals, a bank of shifting sand ridges hidden beneath the turbulent sea off Cape Hatteras, has never promised safe passage for ships. Over 600 ships wrecked here as victims of shallow shoals, storms, and war. The treacherous waters off the coast of the Outer Banks are known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It is also the nearest landmass on the North American mainland to Bermuda, which is about 563 nautical miles (648 mi 1,043 km) to the east-southeast. A large area of the Outer Banks is part of a National Park, called the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and maritime forests create a unique environment where wind and waves shape the topography. Image orientated with North to the left and East pointing up.Ĭape Hatteras / ˈ h æ t ə r ə s/ is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina. Hatteras Island, Dare County, North Carolina, United StatesĬape Hatteras from space, October 1989. Residents and visitors will continue to have access down Cape Hatteras Pier Drive during construction.An aerial view of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse prior to its 1999 relocationĬoordinates: 35☁3′21″N 75☃1′48″W / 35.22250°N 75.53000°W / 35.22250 -75.53000 Over the next year, the Seashore will replace the lost parking capacity by enlarging the parking area at the Frisco Beach access, located about 0.3 miles to the south. Therefore, the pavement has been removed and the dune will be rebuilt in the gap formed by the historic parking area.
Given the lot’s proximity to the ocean, it is not sustainable to implement repairs. The area was previously a parking lot that has been severely damaged by storms over the last several years. (Morehead City, NC) expects to finish hauling sand, shaping the dune, and planting American beach grass on the dune by early December 2020. The project is expected to be completed by the end of November.ĭune Restoration and Cape Hatteras Pier Drive Repair, FriscoĪ project to restore a large section of dune at the east end of Cape Hatteras Pier Drive is scheduled to begin Monday, October 19. Work is scheduled to begin Monday, November 2.ĭuring the project, the Old Lighthouse Beach parking lot will be closed however, visitors will continue to have access to parking in the nearby Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Beach Access parking lot, located just south, or the Buxton Beach Access parking lot which can be accessed by driving down Old Lighthouse Road in Buxton. A project to repair and repave the parking lot will be completed by Achuti LLC.
The parking lot at the former site of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has received damage from many severe weather and ocean overwash events.
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