U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
1919

Cape Hatteras Outer Banks North Carolina

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Cape Hatteras: Wimble Shoals to Ocracoke Inlet North Carolina

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Old U.S. nautical chart of Cape Hatteras, and the outer banks in North Carolina. This 96-year old large two-color navigation chart of the barrier islands near Cape Hatteras includes Portsmouth Island, Ocracoke Island, Gull Island, Hatteras Inlet, Ocracoke Inlet, Sandy Bay, and the towns of Portsmouth, Ocracoke, Hatteras, Buxton, and Kinnakeet ( Avon ). On the mainland side of the sound coverage includes the vicinity of Wyesocking ( Wysocking ) Bay, with small towns of Nebraska and Middleton, and also the Middleton Anchorage.

Detailed delineation of lights, buoys, and soundings and emphasis on the numerous reefs and shoals both inside and outside the Hatteras barrier islands. These features include Diamond Shoal, Wimble Shoals, Clam Shoal, Long Shoal, Oliver Reef, Clarks Reef, and dozens more. This area has become known as the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' because more than 600 ships have sunk in the waters since 1526. The schooner Carrol A. Deering, dicussed elsewhere on this site, went aground a few miles from the Cape Hatteras lighthouse in 1921.

Originally published at Washington, D.C. in 1918 this edition sports a purple hand-stamp bearing the date of presumably the last corrections: November 8, 1919. Number 1232.

CREATOR: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

PUBLICATION DATE: 1919

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Pamlico Sound

CONDITION: Good.  A few repaired marginal tears. Chipping and two dark areas at the outer marginal edges. Otherwise should frame nicely. Margins about 3/8" on the sides.

COLORING: Yes

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SIZE: 42 " x 32 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $

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