Cape Blanco Oregon
by Scott Pellegrin
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Cape Blanco Oregon
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Scott Pellegrin
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The cape is part of Cape Blanco State Park and is the location of the Cape Blanco Light, first lit in 1870.
Windswept Cape Blanco is the farthest western point on the mainland of Oregon. It is also the second-most westerly point of the contiguous United States (Cape Alava, Washington, exceeds Cape Blanco by some nine minutes of longitude).
Located about five miles north of Port Orford and three miles west of Highway 101, Cape Blanco may have been the "white cape" sighted and named by Spanish navigator Martin de Aguilar in 1603. After de Aguilar, the Oregon Coast remained essentially terra incognita to non-natives for another century and a half, when Spanish maritime explorer Juan Francisco Bodega christened the point Cabo Diligensias in 1775.
The cape may have been named by explorer Martín de Aguilar in 1603 for its appearance, as blanco means "white" in Spanish. In 1775, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra named the point Cabo Diligensias. It was later renamed Cape Orford by Captain George Vancouver in 1792, but this name fell into disuse and Cape Blanco became the common usage.
The cape, a relatively level landform with cliffs facing the sea, is about 200 feet higher than the ocean. It consists of layers of uplifted marine sediments, ranging in age from 80 million years at the bottom to less than 500,000 years at the top. The uplift is continuing; Cape Blanco is rising by several millimeters each year. Generally, landforms on the north and south end of the Oregon Coast are rising as the ocean floor slides under the continent, while the central part of the coast "seems to be folding down."
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