![]() ![]() ![]() But catching a glimpse of an occasional powerful wave as it hits violently against the shore, you can imagine how the sea could force an impenetrable U.S. Tourists come here for the idyllic scenery, most not realizing that this area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, a place where more than 2,000 ships have met their watery end over the past several hundred years. Sandbars peek from the waves, there one day, gone the next in the ever-changing Outer Banks seascape. You first notice the way the sun glistens against the rocky sand the tide has left behind. Standing at the edge of the sea near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, is a moving experience. The USS Monitor rests off the coast of North Carolina. Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, located 16 miles off of Cape Hatteras in the Outer Banks, was the first sanctuary to be designated in the National Marine Sanctuary System. The USS Monitor: A feat of naval ingenuity and the first national marine sanctuary ![]()
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