Colington Island
Colington Island is an island located to the west of Kill Devil Hills in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The island is located at the converging point of Albemarle Sound, Currituck Sound, Croatan Sound, and Roanoke Sound.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Collington Island” and “Collington’s Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include First Flight Airport and Wright Brothers National Memorial.
First Flight Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Ke7dlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
First Flight Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of Kill Devil Hills, a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Park
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates Wright Flyer; the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colington and Kill Devil Hills.
Kill Devil Hills
Kill Devil Hills is a colorfully-named town on the coast of North Carolina. It is part of the Outer Banks, and is best known for its association with the Wright Brothers' historic flights in the first airplane in 1903.
Kitty Hawk
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kitty Hawk, located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, consists of a thriving village that has been around for generations, a newer beach community of residential cottages, and a maritime forest called Kitty Hawk Woods which features a wide variety of plant and animal life.
Colington Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.00572° or 36° 0′ 21″ northLongitude
-75.70851° or 75° 42′ 31″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
8786274R+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 357770826OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
Discover Colington Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Colington Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colington Island”
- Chinese: “科靈頓 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “科靈頓”
- French: “Colington Island”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Eagleton and Fort Raleigh City.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Liberty Christian Fellowship and Colington United Methodist.
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