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Castle Rock, Arch Cape
By LISSA BREWER
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
For some shorebird colonies nesting
among the North Coast’s churning seas,
home is a castle in the Pacifi c. It’s one
admired by beachcombers, gardeners and
travelers, named so for its turret-like outline
as viewed from the shore.
Sitting just over a half mile off shore
from Arch Cape, Castle Rock is home to
fl ocks of brown pelicans, common murres,
western gulls and many other migratory
birds. Like more than 1,800 of its sister
monoliths up and down the Oregon Coast,
the sea stack is part of the Oregon Islands
National Wildlife Refuge, a series of rocks,
reefs and headlands stretching from Til-
lamook Head to the Oregon-California
border.
This castle of the sea was formed by a
lava fl ow known as the Columbia River
fl ood basalts, a fi nding that dates the rock to
an age of about 15 million years. Its pres-
ence indicates a series of prehistoric erup-
tions and ancient shorelines. Formed by
soft sediments spread to the coast by the
Columbia River, it remains a beacon among
today’s coastal castles.
Castle Rock
sits off shore
from an Arch
Cape garden.
Lissa Brewer
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