In addition to Cape Hatteras Light, the SS Lancing shipwreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Proximity to the convergence of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream result in some of the largest surf available [7] on the East Coast.

[9] On May 21, 1942, the body of a British seaman, unidentifiable but presumed to be from the HMT Bedfordshire, sunk by a German U-boat, washed ashore.

The month prior, a British sailor from the sunken merchant ship San Delfino had been buried in Buxton.

The Bedfordshire seaman was interred in an adjacent plot, resulting in a British Cemetery, formally known as Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Burial Ground.