Wide view of Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown, Cape Cod.

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Herring Cove Beach

Provincetown · United States

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A wide curving beach inside the Cape Cod National Seashore at the tip of the Cape, facing west across Cape Cod Bay, which makes it one of the few east-coast beaches where the sun sets over the water.

Country
United States (US)
Region
North America
Sand
Pale grey-gold
Water
Calm bay water, gentle surf
Administrative area
Massachusetts
Timezone
America/New_York
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2017-05-23

Names in the record

Herring Cove Beach

  • New Beach
  • Provincetown Beach

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Source position

42.04788, -70.22030

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

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