found: Work cat: An account of the cutting through of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, September 7, 1846, 1885:page 3 (Hatteras Inlet is on the coast of North Carolina, between Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Inlet, about twelve miles from the cape, southwest, and fourteen miles northeast of Ocracoke)
found: GNIS, July 9, 2015(Hatteras Inlet; channel in Hyde and Dare counties, N.C.; 35°11ʹ31ʺN 075°45ʹ40ʺW)
found: The North Carolina gazetteer, c2010(Hatteras Inlet, from the Atlantic Ocean into Pamlico Sound, lies between Hatteras Island, south Dare County, on the north, and Ocracoke Island, south Hyde County, on the south; it was opened by a storm in 1846; previously was closer to Ocracoke Inlet and closed in 1760s; from 1760s to 1846, Cape Hatteras was joined to Ocracoke Island)