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The Currituck Beach Light (/ ˈkʊrɪtʌk /) [2] is a lighthouse located on the Outer Banks in Corolla, North Carolina. The Currituck Beach Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1973.
Corolla, North Carolina. Corolla (/ kəˈrɑːlə / kuh-RAHL-uh) [1] is an unincorporated community located in Poplar Branch township, Currituck County, North Carolina, United States, along the northern Outer Banks. It has a permanent population of approximately 500 people; during the summer vacation season, the population surges into the ...
Whalehead Club. The Historic Whalehead Club is a large 21,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) home located on a remote tract facing the Currituck Sound in North Carolina, United States. [1] The structure was designed by owners Edward Collings Jr. and Marie Louise Label Knight and contracted by Daniel Peckham between 1922 and 1925.
Road access to the northern Outer Banks is cut off between Sandbridge and Corolla, North Carolina, with communities such as Carova Beach accessible only by four-wheel drive vehicles. North Carolina State Highway 12 links most of the popular Outer Banks communities in this section of the coast.
Cape Lookout National Seashore preserves a 56-mile (90-km) long section of the Southern Outer Banks, or Crystal Coast, of North Carolina, United States, running from Ocracoke Inlet on the northeast to Beaufort Inlet on the southwest. Three undeveloped barrier islands make up the seashore - North and South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks. The seashore includes two historic villages on Core ...
Currituck County (/ ˈkʊrɪtʌk /) [ 2 ] is the northeasternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,100. [ 3 ] Its county seat is Currituck. [ 4 ] The county was formed in 1668 as a precinct of Albemarle County and later gained county status in 1739. [ 5 ] The name is "traditionally said to be an indigenous word for wild geese; Coratank ...
The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a 163-foot-high lighthouse located on the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. It flashes every 15 seconds and is visible at least 12 miles out to sea and up to 19 miles. It is one of the very few lighthouses that operate during the day. It became fully automated in 1950. [2] The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is the only such structure in the United States to bear ...
Currituck Sound. Currituck Sound (/ ˈkʊrɪtʌk /) [1] is a lagoon located in northeastern part of North Carolina and extreme southeastern Virginia. 36 miles (58 km) long north-south and 8 miles (13 km) at its widest, [2] this shallow, island-filled sound is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Currituck Banks Peninsula (formerly Bodie ...