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Oregon Inlet is an inlet along North Carolina's Outer Banks. It joins the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean and separates Bodie Island from Pea Island , which are connected by the 2.8-mile (4.5 km) Marc Basnight Bridge that spans the inlet.
The first ferries began in the mid-1920s when Captain J.B. "Toby" Tillett established a tug and barge service across Oregon Inlet along North Carolina's Outer Banks. In 1934, the North Carolina Highway Commission recognized the importance of this service to residents and began subsidizing Tillett's business.
At Whalebone Junction, the three main highways of the Outer Banks (NC 12, US 158, and US 64) all meet. Additionally, NC 615 serves as the main route along Knotts Island in the extreme north; it connects only to Virginia by land. A number of ferries maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division also serve the Outer ...
North Carolina Highway 12 (NC 12) is a 148.0-mile-long (238.2 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina, linking the peninsulas and islands of the northern Outer Banks. Most sections of NC 12 are two lanes wide, and there are also two North Carolina Ferry System routes which maintain continuity of the route as it traverses ...
Bodie Island (/ ˈ b ɒ d i / BAH-dee) is a long, narrow barrier peninsula that forms the northernmost portion of the Outer Banks.The land that is most commonly referred to as Bodie Island was at one time a true island, but in 1811 Roanoke Inlet, which had separated it from the Currituck Banks in the north, closed. [1]
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Oregon Inlet Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service and remodeled in 1933 and 1970. It is a 1 1/2-story, Shingle Style rectangular frame building with a lookout tower. It has a porch that surrounds the building.
Pea Island dunes Pea Island ocean view. Pea Island is an island which is part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.Because of the shifting nature of the barrier island system of which Pea Island is a part, and the way in which inlets open and close over time, Pea Island has, at times, been contiguous with the neighboring islands of Bodie Island or Hatteras Island.