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Flattery, Cape

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Flattery, Cape

Promontory on the northwest of the Olympic Peninsula, overlooking Juan de Fuca Strait, in northwest Washington. A national wildlife refuge and the reservation of the seafaring Makah are here; reservation population (1990) 600. Cape Flattery Light stands offshore on rocky Tatoosh Island. The small town of Neah Bay in Clallam County is 5 km/3 mi to the east; population (1990) 900.

The cape was named by Capt James Cook in 1778, because it (misleadingly) ‘flattered’ his crew with hopes of an anchorage.



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