Quimper Peninsula (Wash.)
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found: Work cat.: Thoms, R.E. The geology and Eocene biostratigraphy of the southern Quimper Peninsula area, Washington, 1959.
found: GNIS, July 16, 2004(Quimper Peninsula, cape, Washington, Jefferson Co.) Apr. 26, 2019 (Quimper Peninsula, cape, variant name: Dickerson Peninsula, Jefferson County, Washington)
found: Washington place names, via WWW, July 16, 2004(Quimper. The Quimper Peninsula is between Port Townsend Bay and Port Discovery Bay in northeastern Jefferson County. It is shaped like the letter "S" and is bounded on the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In 1862, it was named by Capt. George Davidson of U.S. Coast Survey, to honor Sub-Lieut. Manuel Quimper, who explored Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1790. It had previously been named Dickerson Peninsula in 1841 by the Wilkes Expedition, for Hon. Mahlon Dickerson.)
found: GeoNames [algorithmically matched](cape; 48°03ʹ55ʺN 122°48ʹ54ʺW)
found: Bishop, K. Andesitic volcanism of the Olympic Peninsula, 1988:abstr. (Quimper Peninsula; northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula)
found: City of Port Townsend website, Apr. 26, 2019:History of Port Townsend (at the tip of the Quimper Peninsula on the Olympic Peninsula)
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2004-09-08: new
2019-10-04: revised
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