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M/V Fort Fisher on the Southport–Fort Fisher Ferry route. Knotts Island–Currituck: This route was created in the fall of 1962, and is the world's longest free ferry. It links NC 615 to the mainland, across the Currituck Sound between Knott's Island and Currituck. This was done to shorten the travel time for Knott's Island school children to ...
The Fort Fisher route, one of three tolled ferries out of seven routes in the state's ferry network, started in the mid-1960s as a public toll ferry. A one-way ticket for a car on the 3.5-mile ...
The Fort Fisher Ferry crosses the Cape Fear River returning from Southport.The cranes in the background are part of the US Army's Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in Brunswick County. The name "Pleasure Island" [2] was the product of a marketing effort by the local Chambers of Commerce back in 1972. They thought Pleasure Island was a ...
The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point or Confederate Point and today is known as Pleasure Island. The strength of Fort Fisher led to its being called the Southern Gibraltar and the " Malakoff Tower of the South".
Alternatively, drivers could use the Southport Ferry or travel north to I-40 toward the Castle Hayne and Northchase area. But these extensive routes would take around an hour and a half to two ...
US 421 starts at a parking/dock area on the Cape Fear side of Pleasure Island. Within one-quarter mile (0.40 km), US 421 passes through its unsigned junction with NC 211 and the approach to the Fort Fisher Ferry Terminal, where travelers can board to cross the Cape Fear River toward Southport.
Buckingham Landing, the previous Daufuskie Island ferry embarkation point on the mainland, was illegally locked and chained last month for 24 hours by a private boat service, according to Nichols.
On June 6, 2013, NC 211 was extended east over the Cape Fear River, via the Fort Fisher-Southport Ferry, to Fort Fisher and US 421. Justification for the change was to have the highway end at another primary route and to incorporate the ferry route into a marine highway, which will expedite dredging operations in emergency situations. [6]