Monday, July 30, 2012

Fact’s about the Outer Banks


  • The Outer Banks was named the #1 Best Family Beach in the U.S.A.
  •  On December 17, 1903 The Wright Brothers took their first flight in Kill Devil Hills.
  • The perfidious seas off the Outer Banks combined with a large number of shipwrecks have given the nickname to our seas “Graveyard of the Atlantic".
  • Dare County covers over 800 square miles, covering 391 square miles of land and 409 square miles of water.
  • On November 22, 1718, Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed by Lt. Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy, in Ocracoke Inlet.
  • Over 400 species of birds have been identified at the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, located on Hatteras Island.
  • Jockey’s Ridge in Nags Head is the tallest natural sand dune system in the Eastern United States.
  • Wild Ponies still run wild along the coast of North Carolina, they are descendants of Spanish mustangs and have been thought to have been here as early as 1523.
  • People in Duck are known to run to Duck Doughnuts and then walk back home with hot fresh doughnuts.
  • The Outer Banks are a series of barrier islands made up entirely of sand - undersea sand bars. 

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