Peninsulas of California

Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names.

"[1] This is a list of landmark coastal peninsulas of the U.S. state of California, ordered north to south.

Unless otherwise noted, source is plate 144 from the Atlas of the War of the Rebellion, drawn 1867, and published 1895.

[2] Ordered alphabetically:

USGS map marking Cape San Martin , Ragged Point , Point Piedras Blancas , San Simeon Point , Point Estero , Point Buchon , Point San Luis, Point Sal, Purisima Point , Point Pedernales, and Point Arguello
Pedro Point, Gulf of the Farallones