Cape Lookout
Cape Lookout is the southern point of the Core Banks, one of the natural barrier islands on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina. It delimits Onslow Bay to the west from Raleigh Bay to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BrianDBell, CC BY 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Lookout Lighthouse.
Cape Lookout Lighthouse
Lighthouse
The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a 163-foot-high lighthouse located on the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. It flashes every 15 seconds and is visible at least 12 miles out to sea and up to 19 miles.
Cape Lookout
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: cape in North Carolina, United States
- Categories: cape, headland, and locality
- Location: Harkers Island Township, Carteret, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.60544° or 34° 36′ 20″ northLongitude
-76.53631° or 76° 32′ 11″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
8765JF47+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 158621026OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Cape Lookout” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “cape Lookout”
- Chinese: “卢考特角”
- Chinese: “盧考特角”
- Dutch: “Cape Lookout”
- German: “Cape Lookout (North Carolina)”
- German: “Cape Lookout”
- Portuguese: “Cape Lookout”
- Russian: “Лукаут”
- Russian: “Мыс Наблюдения”
- Turkish: “Cape Lookout”
- Turkish: “Lookout Burnu, Kuzey Karolina”
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