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.