34.5772°N, 120.6469°W.
Northern prong of the Point Conception triple-headland complex, where the California coast begins its 90° east-west pivot. The Western Test Range of Vandenberg Space Force Base reaches the sea here; the launch corridor for polar-orbit and sun-synchronous payloads runs south over open ocean from this point.
Point Arguello was the last visual fix the Destroyer Squadron 11 navigators believed they had on the night of the Honda Point Disaster five miles to the north — they passed the actual headland thirteen minutes earlier than their plot showed and ran the formation onto the rocks at full speed.
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