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Currituck Sound (/ ˈ k ʊr ɪ t ʌ k /) [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 Island ...
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According to the Trewartha climate classification system, Currituck National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina has a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summers, cool winters and year-around precipitation (Cfak). Cfak climates are characterized by all months having an average mean temperature > 32.0 °F (> 0.0 °C), at least eight months ...
The alligators can stay frozen in place for days at a time, the park found. Temperatures fell to 17 degrees in Ocean Isle Beach on the day the video was recorded, the park reported.
A North Carolina man captured incredible video footage of a massive alligator sauntering across a road in a town on the coast. The footage captured by Jonathan Findley on Sunday shows the huge ...
Alligators may lie in dens or burrows by river banks or lagoon edges where there are pockets of air for them to breathe or may even hide in nearby culverts during brumation, places that provide ...
The refuge is administered by the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge as a part of a refuge complex; the manager of the Alligator River refuge supervises the managers of the Mackay Island, Currituck, and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuges. The Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan for the refuge was completed in September 2006.
The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is a 152,000-acre (620 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in eastern North Carolina along the Atlantic Coast. It was established on March 14, 1984, to preserve and protect a unique wetland habitat type—the pocosin —and its associated wildlife species.