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Peninsulas of Oregon

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View of Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge and Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge

Many coastal peninsulas of Oregon are properly headlands, often called capes.

Major navigation and geographic landmarks

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1866 United States survey from the Oregon Historical Society digital collections

Unless otherwise specified the source of the list is the Oregon maps of the Smithsonian's 1899 Indian Land Cessions of the United States.[1] Ordered north to south:

  1. Point Adams (see Point Adams Light)
  2. Tillamook Head (see Tillamook Rock Lighthouse)
  3. Cape Falcon (formerly known as False Tillamook, see Oswald West State Park and Cape Falcon Marine Reserve)
  4. Cape Meares (see Cape Meares Lighthouse)
  5. Cape Lookout
  6. Cape Foulweather
  7. Yaquina Head (see Yaquina Bay Lighthouse and Yaquina Head Lighthouse)
  8. Cape Perpetua
  9. Coos Head and Coos Bay Peninsula on Coos Bay
  10. Cape Arago (see Cape Arago State Park and Cape Arago Lighthouse)
  11. Cape Blanco (see Cape Blanco Lighthouse)
  12. Crook Point and Mack Arch (also known as Arch Rock)

Other headlands, promontories, rocks and stacks

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Ordered alphabetically:

The coast of Oregon also has a number of significant sea stacks.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Oregon 1". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  2. ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, Jamie Hale | The (2020-01-12). "The 20 best sea stacks on the Oregon coast". oregonlive. Retrieved 2023-04-15.