Dungeness Spit

Dungeness Spit is a sand spit jutting out approximately 5 miles (8 km)[1] from the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula in northeastern Clallam County, Washington into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Its land area, according to the United States Census Bureau, is 1,271,454 square meters (0.4909 sq mi, or 314.18 acres).

The lighthouse once was run by United States Coast Guard, but in 1976 the agency installed an automatic light.

Since 1994 the lighthouse has been staffed and maintained by the volunteer "New Dungeness Light Station Association".

British explorer George Vancouver named the landform in 1792, writing "The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in the British Channel, I called New Dungeness.