• Brown Pelican taking off.

    Cape Hatteras

    National Seashore North Carolina

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Historic Places

Did You Know?

This artist's rendering shows the U.S.S. Monitor foundering in a storm off of Cape Hatteras in December 1862.

The U.S.S. Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras during a storm in December 1862.  The wreck's location was a mystery until 1973 when a research vessel found the ship 16 miles off the cape in 230 feet of water.

In 1975, the Monitor  was named the nation’s first National Marine Sanctuary.