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  2. California Current - Wikipedia

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    The California Current (Spanish: Corriente de California) is a cold water Pacific Ocean current that moves southward along the western coast of North America, beginning off southern British Columbia and ending off southern Baja California Sur.

  3. Chemical dumps in ocean off Southern California - Wikipedia

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    From the 1930s until the early 1970s, multiple government agencies (including the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) approved ocean disposal of domestic, industrial, and military waste at 14 deep-water sites off the coast of Southern California. Waste disposed included refinery wastes, filter ...

  4. List of coastal islands of the Californias - Wikipedia

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    Baja California was mistakenly thought to be an island rather than a peninsula. The Californias region, which comprises California and the Baja California Peninsula, includes many coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean. California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and ...

  5. List of islands of California - Wikipedia

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    Island Image Coordinates Counties Description Bird Rock: 5]: Marin : Small Pacific island west of Tomales Point, primarily a seabird colony. It covers 2 acres (0.81 ha). : Hog Island (Tomales Bay): Marin : A 2-acre (0.81 ha) island in Tomales Bay. : Año Nuevo Island: 6]: San Mateo : Small Pacific island, about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) long, near Año Nuevo (New Year's) Point, south of the Golden ...

  6. The Beacon Hotel (Santa Monica) - Wikipedia

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    The Shangri-La Apartment Hotel opened on May 1, 1940. Designed by William E. Foster, it was constructed by Tulsa-Santa Monica Corporation/F.A. Gillespie & Sons at a cost of $400,000. [ 1 ] The building originally had nine double apartments and two bachelor apartments on each of the first five floors, five luxury apartments on the sixth floor ...

  7. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    The United States was now a Pacific Ocean power. Starting in 1848 Congress, after the annexation of California but before the California Gold Rush was confirmed there, had subsidized the Pacific Mail Steamship Company with $199,999 to set up regular packet ship, mail, passenger and cargo routes in

  8. Santa Monica Bay - Wikipedia

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    Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay, aerial view. Santa Monica Bay is a bight of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, United States.Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume, in Malibu, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

  9. Channel Islands (California) - Wikipedia

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    The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses the waters six nautical miles (11 kilometers; 6.9 miles) off these islands. Santa Catalina Island is the only one of the eight islands with significant permanent civilian settlements—the resort city of Avalon and the unincorporated community of Two Harbors.

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