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Where, in 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists came to carve out a settlement from the wilderness dunes of Roanoke Island in the New World, later disappearing and leaving an enduring unsolved mystery. Where brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright broke man's bond to the earth on December 17, 1903, when they made the first flight of a heavier-than-air, machine-powered glider, thus solving a puzzle that had mystified man since the dawn of time ... how to fly like birds.
The Outer Banks is a place you can climb the 268 steps to the top of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest on the American Coast, for an unparalleled panoramic view of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. There's all this and so much more.
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