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The Port of Long Beach, administered as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is a container port in the United States, which adjoins Port of Los Angeles. [3] Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km 2 ) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California .
The island was originally called Isla Raza de Buena Gente [2] and later Rattlesnake Island. [3] It was renamed Terminal Island in 1891. [2]In 1909, the newly reincorporated Southern California Edison Company decided to build a new steam station to provide reserve capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system and to enable Edison to shut down some of its small, obsolete steam plants.
Route 110 is defined as follows in the California Streets and Highways Code's section 410, ... – Terminal Island, Long Beach: SR 47 exit 1B: 1.23: 1.98: 1B:
Long Beach Airport's runway 30 The old terminal building in 2009. Long Beach Airport covers 1,166 acres (472 ha) at an elevation of 60 feet (18 m). It has three asphalt runways: [1] [19] 12/30 is 10,000 by 200 feet (3,048 x 61 m). 8L/26R is 6,192 by 150 feet (1,887 x 46 m). 8R/26L is 3,918 by 100 feet (1,194 x 30 m). It has four helipads:
Roosevelt Base Terminal Island shipyard was founded in September 1942 as a ship repair facility. Construction started in 1939. Roosevelt Base also was the administrative and 40 acre recreational center for the Naval facilities on Terminal Island. Roosevelt Base Terminal Island was renamed Naval Station Long Beach on 15 November 1946
It occupies 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "America's Port", the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown.
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.It is the 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 451,307 as of 2022. [11]
Natural islands in San Pedro Bay include Terminal Island (actually an augmented mudflat and Rattlesnake Island), [6] the site of much of Los Angeles' and Long Beach's port facilities, Mormon Island, the site of an abortive settlement attempt by San Bernardino-based Mormon pioneers in the 1850s, and Smith's Island. [7]