Photos from the trip
Outer Banks
Cape Hatteras Light
Buxton, North Carolina
Its real signal — watch it blink
Fl W 7.5s — one white flash every 7½ seconds
One full cycle: 7.5 seconds.
- Built
- 1870
- First lit
- 1870
- Height
- 200 ft
- Focal plane
- 192 ft above water
- Status
- Still burning
- Visited
- Add your year
America's most famous lighthouse, and the tallest brick lighthouse in the country — 200 feet of black-and-white spiral stripes on the stormiest stretch of the Outer Banks. The Atlantic's 'graveyard of ships' is right offshore. In 1999 the National Park Service picked the whole tower up and moved it 2,900 feet inland to save it from the sea. Its light still flashes a single white blink every 7½ seconds.