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Bodega Bay, located about 20 mi (32 km) south, served as the primary port for Fort Ross. [13] RAC ships often stopped at Bodega Bay for repairs, such as the Il'mena, which was laid up at Bodega Bay for repairs from September 1815 to April 1816. [14] Russian chart of Fort Ross to Bodega Bay, 1817-18. Bodega Harbor and Bay appear in the upper right.
The village of Bodega Bay sits along the eastern side of the harbor. Geologically, the harbor is formed by a depression of the San Andreas Fault. Southwest of Bodega Harbor is the University of California's Bodega Marine Reserve on Horseshoe Cove. Bodega Harbor is a good location for access to Cordell Bank, Tomales Bay, and the Farallon Islands.
Bodega Bay is named after Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, who explored Bodega Bay in 1775.. Bodega Bay is the site of the first Russian structures built in California, which were erected in 1809 by Commerce Counseller Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov of the Russian-American Company in the lead-up to the establishment of Fort Ross.
Bodega Marine Reserve is a 362-acre (146 ha) nature reserve and marine reserve on the coast of northern California, located in the vicinity of the Bodega Marine Laboratory on Bodega Head. It is a unit of the University of California Natural Reserve System , administered by the University of California, Davis .
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sonoma County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sonoma County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties ...
Bodega Head Bodega Head in 2013, seen from Pinnacle Gulch.. Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. It is located in Sonoma County, approximately 40 mi (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and approximately 20 mi (32 km) west of Santa Rosa.
All people and cargo was saved and taken to Bodega Bay and Fort Ross. Frolic: 1850 An opium-trading brig wrecked near Point Cabrillo Light in 1850. Frolic was the subject of a 2003 episode of Deep Sea Detectives. Josephine Woolcot: 1886 A schooner wrecked by a storm off Mendocino City. Ship broke in half mid ship into two sections – bow and ...
Doran Regional Park is a regional park south of Bodega Bay, California, U.S.A. that is maintained by the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department. It covers an area of 127 acres (51 ha). [ 1 ] It is located at 38°18′50″N 123°02′34″W / 38.314°N 123.0428°W / 38.314; -123.0428 [ 2 ] on the sand spit separating Bodega Harbor ...