Cape Foulweather is a basalt outcropping 500 feet (150 m) above the Pacific Ocean on the central coastline of the U.S. state of Oregon - in Lincoln County, south of Depoe Bay. It is bisected by US Highway 101, with a pass elevation of approximately 550 feet (170 m), which is the fourth highest point of the highway in Oregon. The cape is notable as the first promontory on the northwest coast of New Albion (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:
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- ↑ Cook, James, The Voyages of Captain James Cook, Volume II, William Smith, publisher, 1842, pp. 259
- ↑ The Coast of Oregon, from the Captain Cook Society web site
44°46′20″N 124°04′33″W / 44.7723366°N 124.0759496°W