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Cape Hatteras Light

Lighthouse · North Carolina

Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse in North Carolina, described in its record as skeleton light erected 1936. North Carolina has 18 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow.

Its light sits 166 feet above the water; the light has a range of about 19 nautical miles; it was deactivated in 1950.

Key facts

Focal height166 ft
Range19 nautical miles
Deactivated1950
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