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Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Outer Banks
How work, access and surfing shaped Outer Banks.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mi (320 km) string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work at the water’s edge
There has been a long history of fishing in the Outer Banks, dating back to the end of the 17th century.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
Road access to the northern Outer Banks is cut off between Sandbridge and Corolla, North Carolina, with communities such as Carova Beach accessible only by four-wheel drive vehicles.
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Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina
Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
The Outer Banks visitor bureau documents an active surf culture along the barrier islands and professional competition on the coast.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Outer Banks is recorded at 35.760° N, 75.528° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
TODAY
Outer Banks now
North Carolina State Highway 12 links most of the popular Outer Banks communities in this section of the coast.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
AOD.US.OUTER-BANKS.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina
AOD.US.OUTER-BANKS.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Outer Banks overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.