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11 images Created 24 Mar 2011

The Outer Banks are a 200-mile (320-km) long string of narrow barrier islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina. Photos include: Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, Bodie Island Lighthouse, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, sea shells, skate egg case, and bird tracks in sand dune patterns.

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  • The current Bodie Island Lighthouse (originally Body's Island, after the family name of the land seller) is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands 156 feet tall and is located on the Roanoke Sound side of the first island that is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The lighthouse is just south of Nag's Head. Its first order Fresnel lens focuses its 1000-watt bulb to be visible up to 19 miles. The US Coast Guard owns the tower, and the National Park Service owns the site. The lighthouse has white and black bands with a black lantern house. Cape Hatteras was once dubbed the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for its treacherous currents, shoals, and storms.
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  • Wright Brothers National Memorial (called Kill Devil Hill Monument until 1933), located in Kill Devil Hills, in Dare County, North Carolina, USA, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. The memorial tower, built in 1932, was designed by Rodgers and Poor, a New York architectural firm. From 1900 to 1903, Orville Wright (born August 19, 1871 - died January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912) came here from Dayton, Ohio, attracted to the area's steady winds and privacy. The town of Kitty Hawk (established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk) was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flights six kilometers (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge.  In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control", which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium, a method which became standard on modern fixed wing aircraft.
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  • Wright Brothers National Memorial (called Kill Devil Hill Monument until1933), located in Kill Devil Hills, in Dare County, North Carolina, USA, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. The memorial tower, built in 1932, was designed by Rodgers and Poor, a New York architectural firm. From 1900 to 1903, Orville Wright (born August 19, 1871 - died January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912) came here from Dayton, Ohio, attracted to the area's steady winds and privacy. The town of Kitty Hawk (established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk) was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flights six kilometers (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge.  In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control", which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium, a method which became standard on modern fixed wing aircraft.
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  • Wilbur Wright bronze bust.  Wright Brothers National Memorial (or Kill Devil Hill Monument from 1927 to 1933), located in Kill Devil Hills, in Dare County, North Carolina, USA, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. The memorial tower, built in 1932, was designed by Rodgers and Poor, a New York architectural firm. From 1900 to 1903, Orville Wright (born August 19, 1871 - died January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912) came here from Dayton, Ohio, attracted to the area's steady winds and privacy. The town of Kitty Hawk (established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk) was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flights six kilometers (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge.  In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control", which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium, a method which became standard on modern fixed wing aircraft.
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  • Grass grows on a dune on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore), located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks. The Pea Island sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12. The refuge objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species. The Refuge was established May 17, 1937.
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  • Bird tracks cross a sand dune pattern on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks, adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12.The refuge objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species. The refuge was established May 17, 1937.
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  • Sea shells and skate egg case. Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore) is located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12.The refuge objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species. The refuge was established May 17, 1937.
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  • Skate egg case. Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge is located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks, adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12.
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  • This sand dune pattern is on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore), located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12. The refuge objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species. The refuge was established May 17, 1937.
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  • Bird tracks cross a sand dune pattern on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks, adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC Highway 12.The refuge objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species. The refuge was established May 17, 1937.
    08NC-1057_sand-pattern.jpg
  • Wright Brothers National Memorial (called Kill Devil Hill Monument until1933), located in Kill Devil Hills, in Dare County, North Carolina, USA, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. The memorial tower, built in 1932, was designed by Rodgers and Poor, a New York architectural firm. From 1900 to 1903, Orville Wright (born August 19, 1871 - died January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912) came here from Dayton, Ohio, attracted to the area's steady winds and privacy. The town of Kitty Hawk (established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk) was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flights six kilometers (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge.  In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control", which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium, a method which became standard on modern fixed wing aircraft.
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