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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 Kitty Hawk, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Kitty Hawk 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 Kitty Hawk:
- 36.064704, -75.705848
- 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 Kitty Hawk
- 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 Dare County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Dare County
- Since Kitty Hawk is near Currituck County and also Camden County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Currituck County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Camden 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 Kitty Hawk
Communities Also Named Kitty Hawk ...
We found one communities that are also named Kitty Hawk.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Kitty Hawk.
Beyond North Carolina.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Currituck 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 North Carolina community of Kitty Hawk [Currituck County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Kitty Hawk ...
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.
- Duck
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Jay Crest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Jay Crest is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay Crest
- Kill Devil Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Kitty Hawk Beach
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Kitty Hawk Beach is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kitty Hawk Beach
- Ocean Dunes
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Ocean Dunes is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Dunes
- Sand Dollar Shores
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Sand Dollar Shores is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Dollar Shores
- Sandy Ridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Sandy Ridge is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Ridge
- Schooner Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Schooner Ridge is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schooner Ridge
- Sea Hawk
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Sea Hawk is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Hawk
- Sea Ridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Sea Ridge is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Ridge
- Sound Side
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Sound Side is located in Dare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sound Side
- Spot
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Spot is located in Currituck County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spot
How Far From Kitty Hawk to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a town such as Kitty Hawk to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Kitty Hawk and extending to:
- Manteo, which is the Seat of Dare County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Kitty Hawk to Manteo, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 165 miles [265.5 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 208 miles [334.7 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,959 miles [9,590.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,647 miles [10,697.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,532 miles [7,293.5 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 Kitty Hawk 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kitty Hawk) 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 Kitty Hawk 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 Kitty Hawk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0647, Longitude: -75.7058 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.288 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.321 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.253 degrees. |
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