Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of the United States upon the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,314 at the 2010 census,
is reached by estate by traveling 25 mi (40 km) through Canada. It is a census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington in the same way as a make known office, and a ZIP Code of 98281. Direct sea and air contacts with the U.S. are simple across Boundary Bay.

Point Roberts was created once the United Kingdom and the United States fixed the Pacific Northwest American-Canadian connect dispute in the mid-19th century bearing in mind the Oregon Treaty. Both parties no question the 49th parallel would define the boundary in the company of their respective territories, and the small Place that incorporates Point Roberts is south of the 49th parallel. Questions approximately ceding the territory to the United Kingdom and far along to Canada have been raised back its inauguration 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 see 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 below Galiano sailed into Boundary Bay and verified Point Roberts was not an island, which was therefore renamed Punta Cepeda. They subsequently sailed vis-а-vis Point Roberts and quickly encountered HMS Chatham, the second boat of Vancouver’s expedition. The two parties made entrance and no question to share information and do something together in mapping the Strait of Georgia.

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

After years of joint pastime of the disputed area between Mexican California and Russian America known as the Oregon Country to the Americans, and as the Columbia District to the British, American expansionists behind U.S. Senator Edward A. Hannegan of Indiana urged U.S. President James K. Polk to annex every one Oregon Country stirring to latitude 54°40′N, as the Democrats had been elected on the slogan “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”.