Oak Island
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yaupon Beach and Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field.
Yaupon Beach
Residential area
Yaupon Beach, North Carolina is a neighborhood of the coastal town of Oak Island in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field
Aerodrome
Photo: RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Fear Regional Jetport, also known as Howie Franklin Field, is a public use airport in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Brunswick County Airport Commission and located one nautical mile northeast of the central business district of Oak Island, North Carolina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oak Island and Caswell Beach.
Oak Island
Caswell Beach
Village
Photo: Gerry Dincher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caswell Beach is a small seaside town located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina, United States. Occupying the eastern part of Oak Island in Brunswick County, its population was listed at 395 in the 2020 census.
Long Beach
Neighborhood
Long Beach, North Carolina is a coastal neighborhood on Oak Island incorporated in 1955. It is well known for the total devastation it sustained during Hurricane Hazel in 1954; only five of the 357 buildings survived the storm.
Oak Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Brunswick, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.90462° or 33° 54′ 17″ northLongitude
-78.08277° or 78° 4′ 58″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
8753WW38+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 357780922OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
“Oak Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Oak Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina, Brunswick County, lat 33,90, long -78,08)”
- Cebuano: “Oak Island”
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