Point Cabrillo Light is a lighthouse in northern California, United States, between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, just south of the community of Caspar...
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California State Route 1 Cabrillo Marine Museum, San Pedro, California Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California Point Cabrillo Light, a peninsula and...
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Bragg, California. It is the location of the Point Cabrillo Light. Geography-wise, it lies between Point Arena headland/peninsula to the south, and Cape...
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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese João Rodrigues Cabrilho) c. 1497 – January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese maritime explorer best known for investigations...
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Cabrillo National Monument (Spanish: Monumento nacional Cabrillo) is a national monument at the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula in San Diego...
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Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest...
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The Frolic was a brig which sank northeast of Point Cabrillo, near Caspar, California. Historians have called it "the most significant shipwreck on the...
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Western Railroad in Fort Bragg, California. The lighthouse used was Point Cabrillo Light. The film is Frank Darabont's sole theatrical film that isn't a film...
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mouth of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. It is situated within Cabrillo National Monument. It is no longer in operation as a lighthouse but is...
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maritime expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542. Cabrillo was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, the Viceroy of New Spain...
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Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The point, a long bluff, forms the northern end of...
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It is bounded on three sides by state parks: the historic 1909 Point Cabrillo Light Station is nearby to the south, Jug Handle State Natural Reserve...
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other remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestine, red light district on the north end of town. There is an unsubstantiated story of...
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from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed from...
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Fort Point, known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín (Spanish for "Saint Joachim's Castle") is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the...
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6, 2022). "Finally complete, the Watts Towers' restoration is a turning point for public art in Los Angeles". Archinect. Archived from the original on...
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Museum". California State Parks. Retrieved 29 October 2011. "Candlestick Point SRA". California State Parks. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009...
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abalone and lobsters. Point Loma was discovered by Europeans on September 28, 1542, when Portuguese navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho...
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Point Lobos and the Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a state park in California. Adjoining Point Lobos is "one of the richest marine habitats in California...
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1850, the ship Frolic was wrecked a few miles north of Mendocino, at Point Cabrillo, and the investigation of the wreck by agents of Henry Meiggs sparked...
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In May 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt camped with Muir near Glacier Point for three days. On that trip, Muir convinced Roosevelt to take control of...
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Meadows Estero Bay Hatton Canyon Indio Hills Palms Point Cabrillo Light Ishxenta State Park Point Montara Light Reynolds Wayside Campground San Timoteo Canyon...
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electricity, by way of a private hydroelectric plant, until the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation began service to the castle in 1924. The climate presented...
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Europeans to visit land near what is now the parks were members of the Cabrillo expedition led by Bartolomé Ferrer. In 1543, Ferrer's ship made landfall...
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)". November 13, 2021. "ClearDarkSky Light Pollution Map". ClearDarkSky.com. Retrieved August 18, 2015. "Light Lollution Map". lightpollutionmap.info...
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(26 m) - Sentinel Island Light, Alaska 85 feet (26 m) - Cape St. Elias Light, Alaska 84 feet (26 m) - Point Cabrillo Light, California 81 feet (25 m)...
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Point Lovers Point Montara and Pillar Point Moro Cojo Slough Morro Bay Natural Bridges Piedras Blancas Point Arena Point Buchon Point Cabrillo Point Dume...
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members of the Juan Cabrillo expedition of 1542, which sailed as far north as Point Reyes, but no source record of the Cabrillo expedition's actual sighting...
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vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m)...
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Point Dana Point Duncans Point Muir Beach Overlook Point Cabrillo (see also Point Cabrillo Light) Point Lobos Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Point San...
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