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16. Whaling Station Site. Ballast Point Peninsula. 11/6/1970. Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point. 17. Lighthouse of 1854. Cabrillo National Monument. 32°40′19″N 117°14′26″W.
Geography. Ocean Beach lies on the Pacific Ocean at the estuary of the San Diego River, at the western terminus of Interstate 8. Located about 7 mi (11 km) northwest of downtown San Diego, it sits south of Mission Bay and Mission Beach and directly north of Point Loma. The O.B. community planning area comprises about 1 square mile (742 acres ...
But an investigation by the South Florida Sun Sentinel published in 2001 found that nearly 100 people died after their vehicles plunged into canals or bodies of water in Broward, Miami-Dade and ...
The Grand Strand is an arc of beach land on the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina, United States, extending more than 60 miles (97 km) from Little River to Winyah Bay. [1] It is located in Horry and Georgetown Counties on the northeastern South Carolina coast. The term Grand Strand dates back to a November 19, 1949 The Myrtle Beach Sun column ...
Vita Sackville-West. Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer . Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine. / 43.51361°N 70.38528°W / 43.51361; -70.38528. Old Orchard Beach is a resort town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 8,960 at the 2020 census. [ 3] It is part of the Portland − South Portland − Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area . Located on the inner side of Saco Bay on ...
Gannett. Wayne Washington, Palm Beach Post. July 20, 2024 at 5:04 AM. West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James' vote to terminate negotiations with the group hoping to manage the Sunset Lounge violated a ...
Ocean Beach Antique District. Coordinates: 32°44′45″N 117°14′58″W. Sunset, with nearby Ocean Beach Fishing Pier, in Ocean Beach. The Ocean Beach Antique District is a specialty shopping district located in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is a few miles northwest of downtown San Diego. [1]