5/365 A Year of Places in Photography Tongue Point

Given its present name, Tongue Point, by Lt. William Broughton, a member of the George Vancouver Expedition of 1792, this promotory point forms a landmark near the mouth of the Columbia River. Local indigenous tribes called this point, Kekemar ke qui before the Europeans and later the Americans arrived and named local sites after their friends and colleagues, many of whom had never set foot in the Pacific Northwest. For the most part, the newcomers had little respect for the more ancient traditions of local tribes and peoples.