Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach is a beach located on the Cape May Peninsula, in Lower Township, New Jersey, near Cape May Point, along the Delaware Bay, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Peter’s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church and Cape May Lighthouse.

Saint Peter’s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church

Church

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Saint Peter's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, known locally as The Gingerbread Church, is a historic church located at the junction of Ocean Avenue and Lake Drive in Cape May Point, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.

Cape May Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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The Cape May Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the U.S. state of New Jersey at the tip of Cape May, in Lower Township's Cape May Point State Park. It was built in 1859 under the supervision of U.S. Army engineer William F.

Battery 223

Bunker

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Battery 223 is in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The harbor defense battery was completed in 1943. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 2008.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cape May Point and West Cape May.

Cape May Point

Village

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Cape May Point is a borough located at the tip of the Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

West Cape May

Village

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West Cape May is a Walsh Act borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. West Cape May is situated 1½ miles east of Sunset Beach.

North Cape May

Hamlet

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North Cape May is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Lower Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. North Cape May is situated 2½ miles north of Sunset Beach.

Sunset Beach

Type: Hamlet
Description: beach in Cape May County, New Jersey
Categories: beach and locality
Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.94453° or 38° 56′ 40″ north

Longitude

-74.96972° or 74° 58′ 11″ west

Elevation

-3 feet (-1 metres)

Open location code

87C7W2VJ+R4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158852424

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4504363

Wikidata ID

Q7641227

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