The seven species of porpoise have a range of habitats around the world. In the region of the North Atlantic Ocean, they are found near West Greenland to Cape Hatteras. In the North Pacific Ocean, their range goes from near Japan to the Chukchi Sea. They also swim in the Barents Sea ...
When hurricane hunter aircraft measured its central pressure at 940 millibars — 27.76 inches — Monday afternoon (Oct. 29), it was the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, N.C. The previous record holder was the 1938 "Long ...
Cape Hatteras National Seashore: lighthouseCape Hatteras lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, eastern North Carolina. In 1933, shortly afterFranklin D. Rooseveltbecame U.S. president, both the Interior Department and the NPS were reorganized. As part of the restructuring, many national monumen...
Cape Hatteras National SeashoreShoreline on Hatteras Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, eastern North Carolina.(more) North Carolina’s beginnings were tied closely to the earliest attempts at English colonization of North America. Roanoke Island in the northeast, a part of the heavily indented ...
Mellon’s concern for the environment led him to aid such areas as theCape Hatteras National SeashoreinNorth Carolina, Lafayette Park inWashington, D.C., and Sky Meadows State Park inVirginia, and his love of literature led him to establish the Bollingen Foundation, which published a number of...
Cape Hatteras National SeashoreShoreline on Hatteras Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, eastern North Carolina.(more) North Carolina’s beginnings were tied closely to the earliest attempts at English colonization of North America. Roanoke Island in the northeast, a part of the heavily indented ...
The Monitor—with 16 crewmen—was lost during a gale off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on December 31, 1862. The wreck of the Monitor was located in 1973, and in 2002 marine salvagers raised the ship’s gun turret and other artifacts from the wreckage....
Cape Hatteras National SeashoreShoreline on Hatteras Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, eastern North Carolina. North Carolina’s beginnings were tied closely to the earliest attempts at English colonization ofNorth America.Roanoke Islandin the northeast, a part of the heavily indented and island-...
Bermuda, self-governing British overseas territory in the western NorthAtlantic Ocean. It is anarchipelagoof 7 main islands and about 170 additional (named) islets and rocks, situated about 650 miles (1,050 km) east ofCape Hatteras(North Carolina, U.S.). Bermuda is neither geologically nor ...
Outer Banks, chain of barrier islands extending southward more than 175 miles (280 km) along the coast of North Carolina, U.S., from Back Bay, Virginia, to Cape Lookout, North Carolina. From north to south they comprise Currituck Banks; Bodie, Hatteras,