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    & Drakes Estero State Marine Conservation Area. Point Reyes State Marine Reserve & Point Reyes State Marine Conservation Area lie within Drakes Bay. Like...
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    waters of the Estero flow into Drakes Bay between Drakes Beach and a narrow strip of land called Limantour Spit. Drakes Estero is a congressionally designated...
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    New Albion (category History of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    on 17 June 1579, when he and his crew landed on the Pacific coast at Drakes Bay in Northern California. While encamped there, he had friendly relations...
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  • brewery Drake's Cakes, an American food company Drakes Supermarkets, a retail chain in Australia Drakes Bay, California, United States Drakes Bay, Costa...
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    National Historic Landmark, the officially recognised location of Drake's New Albion is Drakes Bay, California. Some writers have suggested that Queen Elizabeth's...
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    town of Agujitas. "Bahia Drake Fishing (Drakes Bay) - Costa Rica Sportfishing". Retrieved 2016-08-03. "Climate: Agujitas de Drake". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved...
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    Limantour Spit winds up on a narrow sandy beach, from which Drakes Beach can be glimpsed across Drakes Bay. North Beach and South Beach are often windswept and...
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    The bay is fed by Bolinas Lagoon, a large inner harbor protected from the main bay by a spit of land, known as Stinson Beach. Along with nearby Drakes Bay...
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    Tomales). Francis Drake is thought to have landed in nearby Drakes Estero in 1579. Members of the Vizcaíno Expedition found the Bay in 1603, and thinking...
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    Drakes Bay Oyster Company was an oyster farm and restaurant formerly located at the shoreline and in Drakes Estero at 38°04'57.3"N 122°55'55.0"W, a bay...
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  • The Drakes Bay Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal California...
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    Camp Hydle also called Drakes Bay Range was a large training center during World War II, located at Drakes Bay, on what is now Point Reyes National Seashore...
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  • Drake. These include Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Drakes Bay, Drakes Estero, and Drakes Beach. Fringe theories on the location of New Albion Drake's Plate...
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    San Francisco Bay are Ohlone. The first European to see San Francisco Bay is likely N. de Morena who was left at New Albion at Drakes Bay in Marin County...
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  • Fringe theories on the location of New Albion (category History of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    Frank Soule, wrote in support of a Drakes Bay landing site. George Davidson concluded that Drake was at Drakes Bay, but believed the actual careening...
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  • analyzing the variation in the tides in the cove called Drakes Estero. Critics of the Drakes Estero theory have maintained that the geography of the cove...
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    north of the Bay Area, in the Lost Coast. The expedition followed the coast southward and on November 7 the San Agustin anchored in Drakes Bay, and claimed...
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    Point Reyes (category Landforms of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    Seashore. The cape protects Drakes Bay on its southern side. The headland is largely drained by Drakes Estero. Drakes Bay and Drake's Estero are named after...
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    California. Dedicated in 1894, it commemorates Francis Drake’s landing in New Albion at nearby Drakes Bay and the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in...
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    area for England as "Nova Albion." Drake's landing place has often been theorized to be at what is now called Drakes Bay, northeast of the western terminus...
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  • Drake landed at Drake's Cove in Drakes Bay, California. According to a contemporary account by Francis Fletcher, a member of Drake's party, Drake left...
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    northeast of Drakes Bay on the Pacific Ocean, named after Sir Francis Drake, who explored the coast in the 16th century. Although Drake's official log...
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  • The Drake Bay Formation is a Pliocene stratigraphic unit in California. In 1993, paleontologists excavated a whale skeleton associated with fossil shark...
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    Whale Cove (Oregon) (category Bays of Oregon)
    proponents of more than twenty sites. The officially recognized Drake landing site is at the Drakes Bay Historic and Archaeological District National Landmark...
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  • other records were lost, the officially accepted location is now called Drakes Bay, on Point Reyes south of Cape Mendocino. By the 18th century, it was understood...
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  • had annual meetings at Drakes Bay and invited speakers related to Drake’s landing. In 1949, the Society erected a cross at Drake’s Beach. Services from...
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    Gulf of the Farallones (category Landforms of the San Francisco Bay Area)
    coast. It extends westward from the opening of the San Francisco Bay and Drakes Bay to the Farallon Islands. Most of the gulf lies in Gulf of the Farallones...
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  • Yakutat Bay Alamitos Bay Bodega Bay Bolinas Bay Drakes Bay Estero Bay Grizzly Bay Half Moon Bay Humboldt Bay Monterey Bay Morro Bay Richardson Bay San Diego...
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    Francis Drake Association". Retrieved 16 July 2020. "To Drake's Bay". San Rafael: Daily Independent Journal. August 23, 1954. "Guide to the Drakes Bay National...
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  • Guild’s research supports the long-standing conclusion that Drake’s “Nova Albion” is at Drakes Bay, California. The Guild's efforts build on the research of...
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