Sloop Island

Sloop Island is an island in Dare, North Carolina. Sloop Island is situated nearby to the locality Eagleton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include First Flight Airport and Wright Brothers National Memorial.

First Flight Airport

Aerodrome

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.

RC Theaters Movies 10

Movie theater

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RC Theaters Movies 10 is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kill Devil Hills and Colington.

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.

Colington

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Colington is a city in North Carolina.

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.

Sloop Island

Type: Island
Also known as: “Frying Pan Island”
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.03044° or 36° 1′ 50″ north

Longitude

-75.70268° or 75° 42′ 10″ west

Open location code

878627JW+5W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 357786054

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4492023

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