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San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach , which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world (behind the ports of Shanghai , Singapore , Hong Kong , and Shenzhen ) and the busiest in the Americas.
San Pedro Bay is a bay in the Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf. It measures about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi; 8.1 nmi) east to west and 20 kilometres (12 mi; 11 nmi) north to south. [1] The bay is bounded by two islands, by Samar the north and east and by Leyte on the east.
San Pedro Bay may refer to: San Pedro Bay (Philippines), a small bay on Leyte; San Pedro Bay (California), an inlet on the Pacific coast of the United States; San Pedro Bay (Florida), a swamp and wildlife management area in north central Florida; San Pedro Bay (Chile), an open bay in Los Lagos Region
The South Bay is a region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The name stems from its geographic location stretching along the southern shore of Santa Monica Bay. The South Bay contains sixteen cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the county. The ...
The THUMS Islands are a set of four artificial islands in San Pedro Bay off the coast of Long Beach, California. The THUMS Islands were built in 1965 to tap into the East Wilmington Oil Field . The landscaping and sound walls were designed to camouflage the operation and reduce noise, and they are the only decorated oil islands in the United ...
San Pedro Bay port area was annexed to Los Angeles in 1909 and in 1913 a storm ended the Santa Monica operation. Thus Port of San Pedro grew to be a major port. To protect San Pedro Bay construction of a breakwater started on April 26, 1899, when the first barge with rocks quarried from nearby Catalina Island were dumped in the bay.
The bay has the form of a half-circle open to the west and has several small coves. On September 18 , 1544 twelve men of the expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene made landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile , with Jerónimo de Alderete claiming the territory for the Governor of Chile and the King of Spain . [ 1 ]
San Pedro Bay grew into one of the world's great ports, and Santa Monica was transformed into a glamorous beach resort, with powerful impacts on the region's urban geography. [2] A 16-mile strip of land (26 km), from Downtown Los Angeles to San Pedro and Wilmington, would soon be part of the City of Los Angeles.