Diamond Shoals
The Diamond Shoals are an infamous, always-shifting cluster of shallow, underwater sandbars that extend eight miles out from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States.- Type: Reef
- Description: Shoals near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, US
- Also known as: “Cape Hatteras Shoals”, “Diamond Shoal”, “Graveyard of Ships”, “Graveyard of the Atlantic”, “Hatteras Shoals”, “Inner Diamond Shoal”, “Outer Diamond Shoals”, “Point of the Diamonds”, “Shoals of Hatteras”, “The Diamond”, “The Diamonds”, “The Graveyards”, “The Shoals”, and “Torpedo Junction”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buxton.
Buxton
Hamlet
Diamond Shoals
- Categories: char and landform
- Location: Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.20623° or 35° 12′ 22″ north
Longitude
-75.51015° or 75° 30′ 37″ west
Open location code
87766F4Q+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=reef
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Hebrew—“Diamond Shoals” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Diamond Shoals”
- Hebrew: “שרטוני היהלום”
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