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Atlantic is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in eastern Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 543. It is situated along Core Sound, located in what was known to early settlers of the area as Hunting Quarters.
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The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three...
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Atlantic Beach is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina,...
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Atlantic es un lugar designado por el censo del condado de Carteret en el estado estadounidense de Carolina del Norte. La comunidad está situada en la Core Sound, ubicado en lo que se sabe que los primeros pobladores de la zona como Hunting Quarters.
Atlantic is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in eastern Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 543. It is situated along Core Sound, located in what was known to early settlers of the area as Hunting Quarters.
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The term "Outer Banks" refers to the islands, shoals, and spits from Cape Lookout northward, including Core Banks, and is frequently abbreviated OBX on regional tourism marketing. In recent decades, the beaches to the south of Cape Lookout have been marketing themselves as the "Southern Outer Banks", including the marketing as SOBX; this region inc...
A tall ridge of sand dunes that survived the melting of the earth's glaciers gave rise to the barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks millions of years ago. By protecting the coastal mainland from the raging waves and storms of the ocean, barrier islands get their name. The Outer Banks is a string of peninsulas and barrier islands separating t...
Vegetation
The vegetation of the Outer Banks has biodiversity, although it is considered the northern limit for many southern plants such as wild scrub palms. In the northern part of the Outer Banks, from Virginia Beach southward past the North Carolina border to Cape Hatteras, the main types of vegetation are sea grasses, beach grasses and other beach plants including Opuntia humifusa on the Atlantic side and wax myrtles, bays, and grasses on the Sound side with areas of pine and Spanish moss-covered l...
Animal life
The islands are home to herds of feral horses, sometimes called "banker ponies", which according to local legend are descended from Spanish mustangs washed ashore centuries ago in shipwrecks. Populations are found on Ocracoke Island, Shackleford Banks, Currituck Banks, and in the Rachel CarsonEstuarine Sanctuary.
The Outer Banks has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). The outer banks have unusual weather patterns because of their unique geographical location. As the islands jut out from the eastern seaboard into the Atlantic Gulf Stream, the Outer Banks has a predisposition to be affected by hurricanes, Nor'easters (usually in the form of rain, and rarely sn...
The Outer Banks is one of the most culturally distinctive areas of the East Coast of the United States. The Outer Banks were inhabited before the arrival of Europeans, with small branches of larger tribes, such as the Algonquin speaking Chowanoke, Secotan and Poteskeetliving semi-nomadic lives. Oftentimes Native Americans would use the barrier isla...
Major industries of the region include commercial fishing, boat building and tourism. Since the 1990s, the rise of tourism has led the region to become an increasingly service-oriented economy.
There are currently six lighthouses on the Outer Banks 1. Currituck Beach Lighthouse, located in Corolla, North Carolina 2. Roanoke Marshes Light, located in Manteo, North Carolina 3. Bodie Island Lighthouse, located south of Nags Head, North Carolina 4. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, located in Buxton, North Carolina 5. Ocracoke Light, located in Ocrac...
George Ackles (born 1967), professional basketballplayerDennis Anderson (born 1960), professional Monster Truck driver and creator of Grave DiggerMarc Basnight (1947–2020), former member of the North Carolina State SenateEmanuel Davis (born 1989), Canadian Football Leaguedefensive backThe geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions — the Appalachian Mountains in the west (including the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains ), the central Piedmont Plateau, and the eastern Atlantic Coastal Plain. North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 ...
Atlantic Beach is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. It is one of the five communities located on Bogue Banks. The population was 1,364 at the 2020 census.
North Carolina (/ ˌ k ær ə ˈ l aɪ n ə / ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia to the southwest, and Tennessee to the west. The state is the 28th-largest and 9th-most populous of ...
