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Cape Fear TownshipSE Chatham County.
Cape Fear Townshipformer township in E Lee County, now township no. 3.
Cape FeareSee Cape Lookout.
Cape Hatterasthe easternmost point in North Carolina, is at the S tip of Hatteras Island, SE Dare County. Diamond Shoals, extending into the Atlantic Ocean SE from the Cape, reach to the Gulf Stream at the notorious "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Called Cape St. John on the Velasco map, 1611; Cape Amidas on the Smith map, 1624; and its present name on the Ogilby map, 1671. The word "Hatteras" apparently is an English rendition of the Algonquian Indian expression of "there is less vegetation." Archaeological evidence indicates that the sixteenth-century Indian village of Croatoan may have been located there. See also various entries under Hatteras; Diamond Shoals.
Cape Hatteras National Seashoreest. 1953, consists of the S part of Bodie Island and most of Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands, except the settled areas. First U.S. national seashore, it was authorized by Congress in 1937. Campsites provided. On the Outer Banks of SE Dare and Hyde Counties.
Cape Hatteras WoodsSee Hatteras Woods.
Cape Kenrickin the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries extended into the Atlantic Ocean from Hatteras Island in E Dare County between the present communities of Rodanthe and Salvo. Appears on the Velasco map, 1611. It disappeared later in the seventeenth century, either through erosion or in a storm. Wimble Shoals, which see, are now at the site. Kenrick is believed to have been derived from the Algonquian Indian word for "sinking-down-sand."
Cape Lookoutthe southernmost tip of Core Banks in SE Carteret County. A lighthouse, coast guard station, and a few summer cottages are there. The De Bry map, 1590, marks the point as "Promontorium tremendum." On the Velasco map, 1611, it is Cape Feare. On the Ogilby map, 1671, it appears as Cape Lookout.
Cape Lookout National Seashorewas authorized to be est. by U.S. Congress in 1966 on Core Banks, Portsmouth Island, and Shackleford Banks on the Outer Banks of E Carteret County. Area contains approx. 16,400 acres.
Cape Lookout Shoalsin the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Lookout, which see, SE Carteret County.