Cape Flattery

Prominent gravel pockets lie off Cape Flattery, Grays Harbor, and the mouth of the Quinault River.

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary 2009

It was on this voyage that Cook named Cape Flattery because it deceived (or "flattered") him into believing he might find Juan de Fuca's fabled strait to the east.

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary 2009

For most of the coast between Cape Flattery and Point Grenville these cliffs rise abruptly 50 to 300 feet above a wave-cut platform.

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary 2009

At seven forty-five his executive officer reported that Cape Flattery was abeam.

On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957

In the eighteenth century, when sailors were looking for a passage across the northern portion of the continent, an opening was found extending into the land between Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery.

The Western United States A Geographical Reader

Cape Flattery; a week later they named Hope Bay, "in which we hoped to find a good harbour, and the event proved we were not mistaken."

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

At seven forty-five his executive officer reported that Cape Flattery was abeam.

On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1936

He remembered passing her off Cape Flattery once and seeing the Blue Star house flag fluttering at the fore.

Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

-- American steamer Pacific in collision thirty miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost.

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters 1912

Though I accompanied my master and his household northward to the village near Cape Flattery, where his chief residence lay, and remained more than three months in his service, I could never obtain speech with

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903