Dungeness Spit, WA, USA 2011
It was first found by Europeans during the Spanish 1790 Quimper expedition.
The name "Dungeness" refers to the Dungeness headland in England. It was given by George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in ths British Channel, I called New Dungeness.
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