Burnside’s Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar

Burnside’s Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar is a memorial in Hatteras Township, Dare, North Carolina. Burnside’s Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar is situated nearby to Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, as well as near Graveyard Atlantic Museum and Ramp 55.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hatteras Weather Bureau Station.

Tourism office

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The Hatteras Weather Bureau Station is a wood-frame building in Hatteras, North Carolina built in 1901 for what was then called the U.S. Weather Bureau. Hatteras Weather Bureau Station is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Burnside’s Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar.

Nearby places include Hatteras.

Hatteras is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States, on the Outer Banks island of Hatteras, at its extreme southwestern tip.

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “On January 11, 1862, the Burnside Expedition left for Fort Monroe, Virginia destined for Hatteras Inlet 120 miles to the south. Two days later, the fleet of over eighty vessels was struck by a strong Northeaster while crossing Hatteras Bar....”
Category: historic site
Location: Hatteras Township, Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.20608° or 35° 12′ 22″ north

Longitude

-75.70571° or 75° 42′ 21″ west

Open location code

8776674V+CP

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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