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The Beaufort museum focuses on North Carolina's cultural maritime heritage, coastal environment and natural history. Exhibit displays include shells from over 100 countries, [3] fish models, shipwrecks, ship equipment, types of watercraft historically used in North Carolina, whaling, oyster catching, waterfowl hunting equipment and duck decoys, and venomous snakes found in North Carolina.
The Duke University Marine Laboratory (commonly referred to as the Duke Marine Lab) is a research facility and campus of Duke University on Piver's Island, [1] near Beaufort and the Outer Banks, North Carolina specializing in studying marine biology. It is part of the Nicholas School of the Environment's Division of Marine Science and ...
Beaufort (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt, different from that of Beaufort, South Carolina) [4] is a town in and the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. [5] Established in 1713 and incorporated in 1723, Beaufort is the fourth oldest town in North Carolina (after Bath , New Bern and Edenton ).
One of just two bridges in the area connecting northern Beaufort County’s population centers, Beaufort and Port Royal, to Lady’s Island and the Sea Islands, Woods Memorial Bridge’s closure ...
The squadron would move from MCAS Cherry Point to Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Edenton, North Carolina on 16 September 1953. On 15 February 1954 the unit received its final designation as Marine Air Control Squadron 5 (MACS-5). Its mission was defined as follows: “To install, maintain, and operate ground facilities for the detection ...
Shrimpers from Texas to North Carolina are in the same boat, Reaves said. About 12 large trawlers operate out of Beaufort County in addition to 20 or 30 smaller boats. Everybody is hurting, he says.
Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue (ICAO: KNJM, FAA LID: NJM), also known as Bogue Field, is an 875-acre (3.54 km 2) landing field located on Bogue Sound (North Carolina) that serves as a Marine Corps’ East Coast site for Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP). It is a sub facility of MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock in Craven County and ...
The U.S. Marine Corps, created as the nation prepared for war with the British, turns 248 years old Friday. ... At Air Station Beaufort, from 10:30 to 1:30 Thursday, Marines were treated to a ...