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Other Outer Banks lighthouses include: Bodie Island Lighthouse (pronounced “body” and also on the Hatteras National Seashore just south of Nags Head near Oregon Inlet – also climbable and is 156 feet tall), Currituck Beach Lighthouse (guardian of the Northern beaches in Corolla, and climbable at 162 feet tall), Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse (40 yards over the Roanoke Sound in Manteo), and at just 65′ the popular little beacon Ocracoke Island Lighthouse (you’ll need to catch a ferry to see her). The lighthouse was moved 2,900 feet in 23 days and now lies 1,500 feet from the seashore, its original distance from the sea.” See the full history here. “In 1999, after years of study and debate, the Cape Hatteras Light Station was moved to its present location.
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You can climb Cape Hatteras Lighthouse seasonally, 257 steps each way, which is equal to climbing a 12-story building. The original brick lighthouse blended into the background, thus the swirling black and white stripes. This lighthouse was built in 1799 and the first light was powered by whale oil back in 1803. This is especially interesting as Cape Hatteras Lighthouse itself had to be moved due to the shifting seashore. From there it pushes ships onto bars (sandbars), like the infamous 12 miles of Diamond Shoals.
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Offshore Cape Hatteras (you may have seen it on the news when Shelly Island was formed a couple years ago and then disappeared just as quick), the Gulf Stream intersects the Virginia Drift, and a branch of the Labrador Current which comes down from Canada (think about the movie Finding Nemo). She keeps watch over one of the most hazardous sections of the Atlantic, also know as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The tallest brick lighthouse in the USA is the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.