Cape Hatteras
[ (hat-uhr-uhs) ]
Promontory on Hatteras Island off North Carolina, a low, sandy barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound.
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How to use Cape Hatteras in a sentence
Where it passes Cape Hatteras it has already lost a large share of its momentum and much of its heat, and is greatly widened.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerIt was over six hundred miles to Cape Hatteras, and she had room enough to manœuvre in any manner she pleased.
Within The Enemy's Lines | Oliver OpticOn the 12th were off Cape Hatteras, the winds blowing heavily from the northeast, and the smack under double-reefed sails.
Tales of Fishes | Zane GreyThe statement of encyclopædias that Vespucci "probably got as far north as Cape Hatteras" is ridiculous.
The Spanish Pioneers | Charles F. LummisThereafter the voyage was thru calm water, not even Cape Hatteras proving sufficient to stir up trouble.
The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace | Frederick Morse Cutler
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