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Holding 235,000 US gallons (890,000 L; 196,000 imp gal), Cape Fear Shoals is the largest of the aquarium's saltwater exhibits. The 24-foot (7.3 m)-deep replica of an offshore reef affords two-story, multi-level views of large sharks, stingrays, groupers, and moray eels.
Proceeds from the festival provides care and support to local individuals and families living with a serious or life-limiting illness
The Frying Pan Shoals are a shifting area of shoals off Cape Fear in North Carolina, United States. Formed by silt from the Cape Fear River , the shoals are over 28 miles long and resemble a frying pan in shape. [ 1 ]
The festival has become one of the Wilmington area's longest holiday traditions.
Cape Fear, on the coast of North Carolina Cape Fear in a NASA satellite photo, showing the estuary of the Cape Fear River. Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the ...
The city of Wilmington on the Cape Fear River was an important port of entry for the Confederacy during the Civil War. And, by late 1864, it was the last southern port open to trade. Fort Fisher, built in 1861, served to protect this valuable port from Union ships. In 1864, the first of two Union attacks on Fort Fisher took place.
Though many say North Carolina is home to seven lighthouses, there are actually eight of them: Old Baldy, Bodie Island, Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, Currituck Beach, Ocracoke, Oak Island, and ...
Each of the four 42" (1 m) legs are buried 296' deep into the soil below and were filled with cement. The 80-foot (24 m) main level and the 135' (41 m) SE corner light tower marks the shoals at the confluence of the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean. [2]