Cape Hatteras

1. Promontory on Hatteras Island off North Carolina, a low, sandy barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound.

Called the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” because of the frequent storms that drive ships landward to their destruction.

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During that period, in the waters off Cape Hatteras, German submarines sank more than eighty merchant tankers, freighters, and Allied warships, and hundreds of people, most of them merchant marines, were killed.

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The storm’s center was about 215 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras as of 11 p.m.

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The waters off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a focal point for convoy navigation, was a graveyard for so many ships it became known as “torpedo junction.”

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I have been schooled on many things while spending time along the east coast between Cumberland Island, Georgia and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — and one such thing is chowder.

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While its habitat ranges from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, the surfclam's primary population lives off the coast of New Jersey.

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