Peninsulas of California


Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."

Major navigation and geographic landmarks

This is a list of landmark coastal peninsulas of the U.S. state of California, ordered north to south. Unless otherwise noted, source is plate 144 from the Atlas of the War of the Rebellion, drawn 1867, and published 1895.
  1. Point St. George
  2. Patrick's Point, also Rocky Point
  3. Cape Fortuna, or False Mendocino
  4. Cape Mendocino
  5. Punta Gorda
  6. Point Arena
  7. Bodega Head
  8. Point Tomales
  9. Tiburon Peninsula
  10. Point Reyes
  11. Duxbury Reef
  12. Marin Headlands
  13. San Francisco Peninsula
  14. Point Bonita
  15. Point Lobos
  16. Point San Pedro
  17. Pillar Point
  18. Pigeon Point
  19. Point Año Nuevo
  20. Monterey Peninsula
  21. Point Pinos
  22. Point Cypress
  23. Point Carmel
  24. Point Sur
  25. Cape San Martin
  26. Piedras Blancas
  27. Cayucos Point
  28. Point Buchon
  29. Point San Luis
  30. Fossil Point
  31. Mallagh Landing
  32. South Point
  33. Mussel Rock
  34. Point Sal
  35. Purísima Point
  36. Point Pedernales, aka Honda Point
  37. Point Arguello
  38. Rocky Point
  39. Point Conception
  40. Point Salinas
  41. Point Mugu
  42. Point Dume
  43. Point Vicente
  44. Palos Verdes Peninsula
  45. Point Fermin
  46. "False Point at False Bay"
  47. Point Loma

Other headlands, promontories and rocks

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