It is in Clallam County, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca joins the Pacific Ocean.
It is also part of the Makah Reservation,[1] and is the northern boundary of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.
Cook wrote: "... there appeared to be a small opening which flattered us with the hopes of finding an harbour ... On this account I called the point of land to the north of it Cape Flattery.
"[4][5] In 1834, the first Japanese persons (including Otokichi) known to have set foot on what is now Washington state arrived in a dismasted, rudderless ship that ran aground near Cape Flattery.
When William H. McNeill learned about them, he took them to British authorities at Fort Vancouver, under orders from John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company which controlled the site.