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The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a 163-foot high lighthouse located on the Southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. It flashes every 15 seconds and is visible at least 12 miles out to sea and up to 19 miles. The Cape Lookout Light is one of the very few lighthouses that operate during the day. It became fully automated in 1950. The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is the only such structure in the United States to bear the checkered daymark, intended not only for differentiation between similar light towers, but also to show direction. The side points of the black diamonds point in a north-south direction, while the side points of the white diamonds point east-west.

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Historical research and genetics testing indicates that these wild horses descended from a core group of the old type of Spanish horses. One genetic factor, the blood variant Q-ac, is believed to be contributed by the Spanish horses of 400 years ago. This genetic marker has been found in only descendents of those Spanish horses. Easily lost through genetic drift, Q-ac has been documented in the Puerto Rican Paso Finos, the isolated mustang population of Montana's Pryor Mountains, and the horses of Shackleford Banks.There are mentions in records spanning the years between then and now of these Banker horses. These descriptions of their size, toughness, temperament, etc., have varied little over the generations and could be easily be used to describe the Spanish stock from whence they came. There are oral histories and traditions handed down faithfully from one generation to another of the coastal people ..."The horses have always been here. They swam ashore off sinking ships".

http://www.shacklefordhoreses.org/

Core Sound Waterfowl Museum

1785 Island Road • Harkers Island, NC 28531
P.O. Box 556 • Harkers Island, NC 28531

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