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About 1600, a Spanish map called the area "Cape of Faire". (Most likely because of the dangerous shoals at the mouth of the river - Ed Shaw's note.) In 1651 a John Farrer map refers to Cape Feare and an Indian Fort near the mouth of the river. (I think this was later changed to Cape Fear and it is called that today. Capt. Ed Shaw)

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The river is named for the dangerous Cape Fear shoals off Bald Head Island, near the river's mouth.

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