Peninsulas of California
Many coastal peninsulas in California are properly headlands. They 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." == Major navigation and geographic landmarks == This is a list of landmark coastal peninsulas of the U.S. state of California, ordered north to south.