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The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (formerly Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary) protects the wildlife, habitats, and cultural resources of one of the most diverse and bountiful marine environments in the world, an area of 3,295 square miles off the northern and central California coast.
Gulf of the Farallones is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the northern California coast. [1] 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 National Marine Sanctuary , which protects about 1,250 square miles (3,200 km 2 ).
Southeast Farallon Islands (from nautical chart of 1957) A Fata Morgana mirage of the Farallon Islands, as viewed from San Francisco. The Farallon Islands / f æ r ə l ɔː n / FA-ra-lon, [2] or Farallones (from Spanish farallón 'pillar, sea cliff'), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.
The area around the Farallones is a breeding ground for great white sharks, but in May many of them head elsewhere. On May 11, with weather conditions judged to be favorable, Gubser got into the ...
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The island became a part of Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in 1981. In 1998, Bolinas Lagoon was declared one of 17 Wetlands of International Importance in the USA by UNESCO. There are ongoing concerns that the waters around the island are gradually silting, affecting both human activity as well as the flora and fauna of the area.
Diagram illustrating the orientation of three of the national marine sanctuaries of Central California: Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay. Davidson Seamount, part of the Monterey Bay sanctuary, is indicated at bottom left. A fourth sanctuary, the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, was designated in 2024.
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