Cape Fear (headland)

Cape Fear is a promontory off the Atlantic coast of the state of North Carolina in the southeastern United States of America and originates from the Bald Head Iceland, part of the barrier island chain, the Outer Banks and is located next to the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Both the sandy layers of the Banks and the alluvial material from the estuary of the river south of Wilmington form the base of the cape, which is the southernmost point of North Carolina and one of the most dangerous for shipping shallows of the Frying Pan Shoals, part of the so-called Graveyard of the Atlantic ( Graveyard of the Atlantic).

The front dunes on the Atlantic coast are covered in sea oats that mix towards the more stable dunes in the second row with other grasses, such as silt grasses and switchgrass, as well as other herbs covered the salt marshes.

The Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano entered Cape Fear in his search for a passage to the Pacific in the spring of 1524.

The name ( or variants were Cape Fair Cape Fare ) comes from an expedition Richard Grenville in 1585, when he on the way to Roanoke Island ran aground behind the cape. Some of the team members had to decrease anxiety and gave the cape so the name Cape Fear, " Cape Fear ".

Cape Fear was on May 3, 1775 also landing place for General Clinton during the Revolutionary War.

Trivia

The Cape Fear was eponymous for the original title of the psychological thriller A Cape Fear in 1962 as well as the remake of Cape Fear, from the year 1991. The films underlying novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald from the year 1957 in the German sold -speaking countries under the title Cape Fear, the literal translation of the Kapnamens.