Point Lookout
Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Point Lookeout”, “Point Lookout, Maryland”, “Pointe Lookout”, “Poynt Lookout”, “Saint Michaels Point”, “Saint Mitchells Point”, “Smiths Sparkes Poynt”, and “Sparkes Poynt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point Lookout Lighthouse.
Point Lookout Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Point Lookout Light is a lighthouse that marks the entrance to the Potomac River at the southernmost tip of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, south of the town of Scotland in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA.
Point Lookout
- Category: landform
- Location: Saint Mary’s County, Southern Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.0376° or 38° 2′ 16″ northLongitude
-76.3219° or 76° 19′ 19″ westOpen location code
87C52MQH+36GeoNames ID
4361245Wikidata ID
Q117414984
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Danish—“Point Lookout” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point Lookout”
- Danish: “Point Lookout”
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