Cape Fear, North Carolina
Cape Fear is a promontory off the Atlantic coast of the state of North Carolina in the southeastern United States of America and rises from Bald Head Island , part of the offshore island chain, the Outer Banks and lies next to the mouth of the Cape Fear River . Both the sand layers of the Banks and the alluvial material from the estuary of the river south of Wilmington form the subsurface of the cape , which represents the southernmost point of North Carolina and belongs to the shallows of the Frying Pan Shoals , which is dangerous for shipping , part of the so-called Graveyard of the Atlantic (Cemetery of the Atlantic).
The front dunes directly on the Atlantic are overgrown by sea oats , which mix with other grasses towards the more stable dunes in the second row , such as silt grasses and switchgrass , as well as other herbs that grow salt marshes .
The Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano entered Cape Fear in the spring of 1524 in search of a passage into the Pacific.
The name (variants were Cape Fair or Cape Fare ) comes from an expedition by Richard Grenville in 1585 when he ran aground behind the Cape on the way to the island of Roanoke . Some of the crew were afraid of sinking and therefore named the Cape Cape Fear, "Cape of Fear".
Cape Fear was also the landing site for General Clinton during the Revolutionary War on May 3, 1775 .
Trivia
Cape Fear gave its name to the original title of the psychological thriller Ein Köder für die Bestie from 1962 and the remake Cape Fear from 1991. The novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald from 1957 on which the films are based is published in German Linguistic area sold under the title Cape of Fear , the literal translation of the Cape name.
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- ↑ George R. Stewart [1945]: Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States , Sentry edition (3rd). Edition, Houghton Mifflin , 1967, p. Page 22.
Coordinates: 33 ° 50 ′ 38 " N , 77 ° 57 ′ 43.7" W.