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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Shoreline on Hatteras Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, eastern North Carolina.
Cape Hatteras
cape, North Carolina, United States
Cape Hatteras, long, narrow, curved sandbar forming a promontory on Hatteras Island, the southeasternmost point of the Outer Banks, North Carolina, U.S. Treacherous shallows to the southeast in the Atlantic Ocean long have been a danger to navigation. Much of the cape’s area is included in Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
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