June 28 (UPI) -- North Carolina has a new, mile-long island along its seacoast formed by ocean tides, a drone view confirmed.
The island of sand, about 5,000 feet long and about 500 feet wide, was discovered off the tip of Cape Point, part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It started as a sandbar but grew because of shifting ocean tides, and the 150-foot-wide strait between the new island and the mainland features a flow as fast as a rip current, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot said.