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» This article is about the geographical feature on the coast of North Carolina. For other uses, see Cape Fear (disambiguation).
Cape Fear is a prominent
headland jutting into the
Atlantic Ocean from
Bald Head Island on the coast of
North Carolina in the southeastern
United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the
Cape Fear River as it drains the southeast coast of North Carolina through an
estuary south of
Wilmington. The cape is the southernmost point of the state of North Carolina, formed where two sweeping arcs of shifting low-lying beach intersect, the result of
longshore currents which also form the treacherous, shifting
Frying Pan Shoals, part of the ship graveyard of the Atlantic.
Dunes dominated by
sea oats occur from the upper beach driftline back to the stable secondary dunes, where they mix with other grasses such as
Saltmeadow Cordgrass and
panic grass, as well as
seaside goldenrod,
spurge, and other herbs to form a stable salt-tolerant
grassland.
The Cape Fear estuary drains the largest watershed in North Carolina, containing 27% of the state's population.
Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Italian explorer sailing for France, made landfall at Cape Fear on his voyage to the New World in the spring of
1524 or
1525.
The name (variously "Cape Fair" and "Cape Fare", a sept of the Scots' Ross Clan) comes from the 1585 expedition of Sir
Richard Grenville. Sailing to
Roanoke Island, his ship became embayed behind the cape. Some of the crew were afraid they'd wreck, giving rise to the name Cape Fear. It was the second English name, after Virginia, bestowed upon the coast of what later became the United States.
Landing place of General Clinton during the American Revolution on May 3, 1775.
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