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The waters off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a focal point for convoy navigation, was a graveyard for so many ships it became known as “torpedo junction.”

I have been schooled on many things while spending time along the east coast between Cumberland Island, Georgia and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — and one such thing is chowder.

While its habitat ranges from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, the surfclam's primary population lives off the coast of New Jersey.

The USS Monitor, which sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in a storm on Dec. 31, 1862, is now a center for sea life.

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closing campgrounds Friday and the North Carolina Ferry System announced it was suspending several routes.