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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Cedar Island, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cedar Island and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Cedar Island:
- 35.008220, -76.316025
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Cedar Island
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Carteret County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Carteret County
- Since Cedar Island is near Pamlico County and also Craven County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pamlico County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Craven County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Cedar Island
Communities Also Named Cedar Island ...
We found one communities that are also named Cedar Island.
Within North Carolina, the name Cedar Island is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Cedar Island in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Lake County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cedar Island [Lake County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cedar Island ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Florence
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Florence is located in Pamlico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Great Neck
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Great Neck is located in Craven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck
- Little Port
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Little Port is located in Carteret County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Port
- Masontown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Masontown is located in Carteret County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masontown
- Oriental
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Oyster Creek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Oyster Creek is located in Hyde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Creek
- Sealevel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Sound Shores
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Sound Shores is located in Hyde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sound Shores
- Sportsmans Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Sportsmans Village is located in Carteret County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sportsmans Village
- Stacy
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Stacy is located in Carteret County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy
- Tusk
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Tusk is located in Carteret County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tusk
How Far From Cedar Island to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cedar Island to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cedar Island and extending to:
- Beaufort, which is the Seat of Carteret County, lies 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Cedar Island to Beaufort, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 141 miles [226.9 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 271 miles [436.1 km] to the north (N). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,031 miles [9,706 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,715 miles [10,806.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,602 miles [7,406.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Cedar Island could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cedar Island) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <5> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Cedar Island to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cedar Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0082, Longitude: -76.3160 In this case, the coordinates for Cedar Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.673 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.601 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.86 degrees. |
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