Cape Foulweather is a

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outcropping above the

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on the central coastline of the

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- in Lincoln County, south of

Depoe Bay Depoe Bay is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, located on U.S. Route 101 on the Pacific Ocean. The population was 1,398 at the 2010 census. The bay of the same name is a harbor that the city promotes as the world's smallest naviga ...

. The cape is notable as the first promontory on the northwest coast of

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(as the area was then known) to be sighted and named by Captain James Cook, while on his third voyage around the world. His March 7, 1778 journal entry reads: The cape can be viewed from Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint.

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Foulweather, Cape Oregon Coast Landforms of Lincoln County, Oregon {{LincolnCountyOR-geo-stub

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