Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of Washington upon the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,191 at the 2020 census, is reached by house from the stop of the United States by traveling 25 mi (40 km) through Canada. It is a census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington, with a herald office, and a ZIP Code of 98281. Direct sea and air contacts with the burning of the U.S. are clear across Boundary Bay.

Point Roberts was created taking into consideration the United Kingdom and the United States arranged the Pacific Northwest American-Canadian be unventilated to dispute in the mid-19th century past the Oregon Treaty. The two parties totally that the 49th parallel would define the boundary between their respective territories, and the small Place that incorporates Point Roberts is south of the 49th parallel. Questions roughly ceding the territory to the United Kingdom and cutting edge to Canada have been raised in the past its instigation but its status has remained unchanged.

The Place around the southern Tsawwassen Peninsula was a favored fishing spot for several Coast Salish groups, who named the peninsula “q̓ʷulƛ̕əl̕”. The first Europeans to look Point Roberts were members of the 1791 expedition of Francisco de Eliza. The maps produced from Eliza’s explorations depicted Point Roberts as “Isla de Cepeda” or “Isla de Zepeda.” In 1792, the British expedition of George Vancouver and the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano encountered one another near Point Roberts. In the day of June 13, 1792, the two ships under Galiano sailed into Boundary Bay and verified Point Roberts was not an island, which was suitably renamed Punta Cepeda. They after that sailed around Point Roberts and snappishly encountered HMS Chatham, the second boat of Vancouver’s expedition. The two parties made entry and entirely to share recommendation and act out together in mapping the Strait of Georgia.

Point Roberts acquired its gift name from Vancouver, who named it after his friend Henry Roberts, who had originally been fixed command of the expedition. Point Roberts assumed its gift political status in 1846, when the Oregon Treaty outstretched the 49th parallel as the boundary along with U.S. and British territory from the Rocky Mountains to Georgia Strait.