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Originally posted by CutiePie2000
What are the 'Outer Banks', peeps? I'm not from the area?
Is Outer Banks a neighbourhood/region/district? Please advise!
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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
I understand the 'Outer Banks" are the islands on the far eastern shores of North Carolina.
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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Outerbanks also includes Nags Head, etc that are mainland beaches.
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Nags Head is closer to the mainland than most parts of the Outer Banks (about 10 miles as the crow flies, as opposed to say about 20 miles like Ocracoke or 30 miles like Hatteras), but it is definitely on an island. (BTW, just north of Nags Head is Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers first flew their plane. Just west of Nags Head is Roanoke Island, site of the first English settlement in the New World. FWIW.)
Take a look at a map of North Carolina, CutiePie2000. The string of barrier islands that form the north-eastern border of NC -- starting with Currituck just south of the Virginia boder and extending to Cape Lookout east of Morehead City -- are the Outer Banks.