• Graveyard of the Atlantic is a nickname for the treacherous waters and area of numerous shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States...
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    Souls' Day & the Graveyard of the Atlantic containing just its title tracks was released under the Paper + Plastick label. In 2012, the band released...
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    Banks have given the surrounding seas the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic. The Outer Banks were also home to the Wright brothers' first flight in a controlled...
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    The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is a maritime museum that focuses on the maritime history and shipwrecks of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The...
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    North Carolina Maritime Museum (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    treacherous coast, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras tells the story of the more than 2,000 shipwrecks that lie off the Outer Banks. Exhibits...
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    The Graveyard of the Pacific is a somewhat loosely defined stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from around Tillamook Bay on the Oregon Coast...
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    Cape Hatteras (category Landforms of Dare County, North Carolina)
    treacherous waters off the coast of the Outer Banks are known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Over 600 ships wrecked here as victims of shallow shoals, storms...
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    Cape Fear (headland) (category Landforms of Brunswick County, North Carolina)
    Frying Pan Shoals, part of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Dunes dominated by sea oats occur from the upper beach drift line back to the stable secondary dunes...
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    Carroll A. Deering (category Schooners of the United States)
    as a common site of shipwrecks for centuries and are known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Rescue ships were unable to approach the vessel owing to...
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    Sable Island (category Ship graveyards)
    Island". Nova Scotia: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. 1999-07-27. Retrieved 2014-01-02. "Graveyard of the Atlantic - Sable Treasures". Digital Collections...
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    number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars gave this area the nickname "Graveyard of the Atlantic." It also led the U.S. Congress...
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    Frying Pan Shoals (category Landforms of Brunswick County, North Carolina)
    excellent fishing. The shoals are known for the high number of shipwrecks found in the region and are deemed part of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. From May 1994...
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    Hatteras, North Carolina (category Beaches of North Carolina)
    in the Graveyard of the Atlantic Hatteras has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). Hatteras experiences hot summers, somewhat moderated by the Atlantic Ocean...
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    Cape Hatteras National Seashore (category National Seashores of the United States)
    combination of natural and cultural resources, and provides a wide variety of recreational opportunities. Once dubbed the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for its...
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  • Diamond Shoals (category Shoals of the United States)
    known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic". Diamond Shoals is composed of three distinct shoals, collectively designated as Diamond Shoals. From the shore...
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    thus are constantly shifting their locations. The Outer Banks are known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because numerous ships have been wrecked along...
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    Theodosia Burr Alston (category Children of vice presidents of the United States)
    ISBN 0-7661-6097-1. Stick, David (1989). Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast. Univ. of North Carolina Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780807842614...
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    the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"; more than a thousand ships have sunk in these waters since records began in 1526. The most famous of these is the Queen...
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  • Historic Albemarle Tour (category Scenic highways in the United States)
    North Carolina Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras Village Halifax, location of the Fourth Provincial Congress, which authorized the Halifax Resolves...
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    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas....
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  • Bodie Island (category Former islands of the United States)
    beams out across the darkening waves, keeping silent watch over the treacherous waters known as theGraveyard of the Atlantic.” The lighthouse, now called...
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    Wash Woods, Virginia (category Geography of Virginia Beach, Virginia)
    on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the former Princess Anne County (now the independent City of Virginia Beach), in the southeastern corner of Virginia...
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    Hank Snow (category Naturalized citizens of the United States)
    the schooner he was sailing on got caught in ferocious winds that blew it uncontrollably toward Sable Island, known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"...
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    shoaling, the area off the North Carolina Outer Banks is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The southern part of the bight borders the Bermuda Triangle...
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  • 2013. "All Souls' Day & the Graveyard of the Atlantic – Single by The Ataris". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved March 11, 2013. "The Ataris – Chart History:...
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  • Calabash Seafood Capital of the World Cape Hatteras The Graveyard of the Atlantic Carolina Beach C.B. Carrboro Paris of the Piedmont Cary Containment...
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  • Torpedo Alley (category Military history of the Atlantic Ocean)
    The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied...
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    Dare County, North Carolina (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Woods Game Land Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Dare Game Land (part) Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum Hatteras Inlet Crab Spawning Sanctuary (part) Jennette's...
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    Shipwreck (category Law of the sea)
    Obstructions Database Archived 2021-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Wreck Diving in the Graveyard of the Atlantic Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Battle...
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    Bodie Island Lighthouse (category Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina)
    the number of dead sailors washed ashore from wrecked ships along this portion of the East Coast, which has long been known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"...
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