Cape Disappointment
by Robert Bales
Title
Cape Disappointment
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
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Looking at Cape Disappointment from McKinney's Head.
Cape Disappointment is a headland located at the extreme southwestern corner of Washington State on the north side of the Columbia River bar, at 46�16��6.13��N 124�5��3.52��W. The point of the cape is located on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific County, approximately two miles (3.2 km) southwest of the town of Ilwaco. Cape Disappointment receives about 2552 hours of fog a year � the equivalent of 106 days � making it one of the foggiest places in the US.
The cape was named on April 12, 1788 by British fur trader John Meares who was sailing south from Nootka in search of trade. After a storm, he turned his ship around just north of the Cape and therefore just missed the discovery of the Columbia River. Alternatively, the cape may have been named in Nov. 1805 by a member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which had recently succeeded in reaching the Pacific, when he found no ships in the vicinity, according to the journal of the expedition as recited in the Ken Burns documentar.
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October 17th, 2011
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