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Henlopen may refer to:
- Cape Henlopen, Delaware, the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States
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, a United States Navy minesweeper and tug in commission from January to March 1918
Usage examples of "henlopen".
During the heaviest part of the hurricane a bark went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals, just below Cape Henlopen and at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, and Tom Chist was the only soul of all those on board the ill-fated vessel who escaped alive.
From Cape Henlopen as the lower jaw there juts out a long, curving fang of high, smooth-rolling sand dunes, cutting sharp and clean against the still, blue sky above silent, naked, utterly deserted, excepting for the squat, white-walled lighthouse standing upon the crest of the highest hill.
The longboat had become separated from the others during the night and had sighted Henlopen a little after sunrise.
Out on the horizon a large containership was making its way north, perhaps to round Cape Henlopen and go up the Delaware.