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There are around 300 named islands in North Carolina with beautiful beaches, nature preserves and activities.

Netflix's Outer Banks takes place in the fictional Kildare County and includes many references to North Carolina throughout. Here's everything to know about the real places featured on the show.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina is no stranger to onscreen depictions, but perhaps no show has drummed up as many jokes or questions as “Outer Banks.” The hit Netflix show

For years, seabird ecologist Jennifer Lavers longed to survey the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Figure of Eight Island off the coast of Western Australia. She’d identified this remote island as the westernmost breeding spot for the species, and one of only six islands in the entire Recherche Archipelago that the species chose to inhabit. […]

In February 2020, lightning struck Figure of Eight Island in Western Australia’s Recherche Archipelago, igniting a fire that burned through most of its vegetation in just a few days. While Figure of Eight has no human inhabitants, it is a nesting spot for short-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris), seabirds that spend most of their lives migrating […]

La chiesa di Santa Maria del Soccorso, o della Neve, è uno dei luoghi più suggestivi dell'isola di Ischia per la sua struttura unica

As the seas rise and temperatures increase, will North Carolinas oceanfront communities be able to maintain their beaches?

Sanko Harvest oil spill off coast of Esperance remembered 30 years on SunSunday 14 updated SunSunday 14 The ship struck the reef at about 3:20am on February 14, 1991. ( Share Print text only Cancel The morning of Valentines Day 1991 was always going to be memorable for young Esperance harbour master Ian Harrod. Key points: Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Sanko Harvest disaster off the coast of Esperance 700 tonnes of bunker oil and 30,000 tonnes of fertilizer spilled into the ocean, spa...

This N.S. historian spent years researching the Spanish flu. Now shes living in a pandemic When Ruth Holmes Whitehead started research in 2017 for a book looking at the Spanish flu pandemic in Nova Scotia, she had no idea shed end up living in one. Social Sharing Its awful because you sort of automatically have this [bad] feeling ... how this is going to turn out Posted: Jan 02, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 2 Historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead is the author of Nova Scotia and the Great...