Cape Lookout National Seashore

Cape Lookout National Seashore is one for the protection of a 90 -kilometer stretch of coastline, the Southern Outer Banks between the estuaries Ocracoke Inlet to the northeast and Beaufort Inlet furnished in the southeast of the island chain in the state of North Carolina nature reserve type a National Seashore. The section is formed by three of the islands North Core Banks, South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks. Also includes two historic villages on Core Banks, the wild horses ( ponies Bank ) on the island of Shackleford and painted with black and white diamonds lighthouse at Cape Lookout to the reserve. The accompanying visitor and information center is located on Harkers Iceland.

The National Park Service, which manages the coastline, scheduled as part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary in 2016, to renovate the 15 November first time in 1859 lit lighthouse and to restore the historic districts of the Cape Lookout and Portsmouth Village Historic Sites.

Management of the park

The National Seashore was authorized on March 10, 1966 and declared on 23 May 1986 to the North Carolina Heritage Area. Since 16 June 1986, the area also to the Carolinian - South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve, the Biosphere Reserve of the Carolinas and the South Atlantic belongs. On 9 September 2007, Tropical Storm Gabrielle hit exactly at Cape Lookout National Seashore with wind speeds of over 90 kilometers per hour on land. The damage was minor, but the following flood and coastal erosion influenced the field considerably.