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The Yaquina Bay Light is a lighthouse that was built in 1871, soon after the founding of the city of Newport, Oregon, in the United States. It is located on the north side of Yaquina Bay . In 1871–1874, it was the busiest and most populated of the many coastal ports between Washington and California.
The Yaquina Head Light, also known early in its existence as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse (though Cape Foul Weather is 4 miles to the north) is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States, established in 1873. It is located in Lincoln County, near Newport at Yaquina Head. The tower stands 93 feet (28 m) tall, and is the tallest ...
A June 1990 aerial photo of Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon. Yaquina Bay (/ j ə ˈ k w ɪ n ə / yə-KWIN-ə) is a coastal estuarine community found in Newport, OregonYaquina Bay is a semi-enclosed body of water, approximately 8 km 2 (3.2 mi 2) in area, with free connection to the Pacific Ocean, but also diluted with freshwater from the Yaquina River land drainage.
Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site, established in 1948, is a coastal state park in west-central Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, in the city of Newport. It is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department , and located at the north end of Yaquina Bay near its outlet to the Pacific Ocean .
Yaquina Head (/ j ə ˈ k w ɪ n ə / yə-KWIN-ə) is a headland extending into the Pacific Ocean north of Newport, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the site of the Yaquina Head Light , and is managed as Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area by the Bureau of Land Management . [ 2 ]
Tillamook Head (see Tillamook Rock Lighthouse) Cape Falcon (formerly known as False Tillamook, see Oswald West State Park and Cape Falcon Marine Reserve) Cape Meares (see Cape Meares Lighthouse) Cape Lookout; Cape Foulweather; Yaquina Head (see Yaquina Bay Lighthouse and Yaquina Head Lighthouse) Cape Perpetua; Coos Head and Coos Bay Peninsula ...
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The SS Caracas (1881–1889) was a coastal passenger steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia.She was the older sister ship to the Valencia.Both Caracas and Valencia (which sank in 1906, and seen after then as a ghost ship) served from New York City to Venezuela. [2]