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A candy-striped light stands 210ft tall, relocated 1,500ft inland from its original shore location in 1999.

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One high light

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, tallest in US, relocated 1,500ft inland in 1999, still operational.

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A candy-striped light

A candy-striped light stands tall, relocated from the coast to stable ground, once the tallest US lighthouse from base to top.

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Cape Hatteras, NC, October 2020.
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Here’s the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse at sunset. Buxton, NC October 2020.
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Orrin Pilkey, Coastal Geologist and Long-Time Duke Professor, Dies Orrin Hendren Pilkey, the widely cited, outspoken Duke University coastal geologist and beloved professor whose influence could move lighthouses, died on Dec. 13 in Durham. He was 90.

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