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Onslow Beach is a 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) stretch of undeveloped beach at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Onslow County, North Carolina, US. It has been used at various times for practice amphibious landings by the U.S. Navy. Presently, it is used as a recreational area by the Camp Lejeune community.
Onslow Bay is an indentation of the North Carolina coast, between Cape Fear in the south and Cape Lookout in the north. Thirteen barrier islands form the shore of the bay. It is part of the open Atlantic Ocean and affords no protection from oceanic swells.
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In April 1941, construction was approved on an 11,000-acre (45 km 2) tract in Onslow County, North Carolina. On May 1 of that year, Lieutenant Colonel William P. T. Hill began construction on Marine Barracks New River. The first base headquarters was in a summer cottage on Montford Point and then moved to Hadnot Point in 1942.
English: This is a locator map showing Onslow County in North Carolina. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Onslow County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 204,576. [1] Its county seat is Jacksonville. [2] The county was created in 1734 as Onslow Precinct and gained county status in 1739. [3] Onslow County comprises the Jacksonville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Jacksonville is a city in Onslow County, North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,723, which makes Jacksonville the 14th-most populous city in North Carolina. [7] Jacksonville is the county seat and most populous community of Onslow County, which is coterminous with the Jacksonville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
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