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Little Kinnakeet LSS

Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving Station

 

 

The National Register of Historic Places, Teaching with Historic Places: Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes Lesson Plan will help your students learn not only about this interesting aspect of North Carolina and maritime history; but also of the heroic and inspiring stories of men who risked their lives to save others from the sea.

The Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station, located within the park just north of Avon, NC, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lightning whelks are one of the few species of  

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Lightning whelks eat about one large clam per month. The whelk pries the clam open with its muscular foot, wedges the clam open with its shell, then eats the soft inside of the clam. Lightning whelk shells, which whorl to the left, wash up on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

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