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    ago). At this time, a spreading center between the Pacific Plate and the Farallon Plate (which is now mostly subducted, with remnants including the Juan...
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    points of Japan Territorial disputes of Japan Desert island List of islands Farallon de Pajaros 世界一小さな島 沖ノ鳥島. www.theeleventhhouronline.com. Archived from the...
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    Bodega Bay called Port Rumyantsev (порт Румянцев), a sealing station on the Farallon Islands 18 miles (29 km) out to sea from San Francisco, and by 1830 three...
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    thoroughfare that runs through the Richmond and to downtown. Technically, the Farallon Islands, about 30 miles to the west of mainland San Francisco, are also...
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    miles (10.5 km). 1958 (age 44) – Maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours...
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    January 1, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2012. Grover Hot Springs information plaque on location Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grover Hot Springs State...
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    "Perished." (Some of the information on this plaque is inaccurate, however.) The Moses Schallenberger plaque reads: SCHALLENBERGER CABIN SITE \ Near this...
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    July and paused the journey the next day when anchoring the ship at the Farallon Islands where they hunted sea lions or seals. Drake left the Pacific coast...
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    Theodore Judah plaque in Old Sacramento...
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    A plaque commemorates the Battle of San Pasqual...
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    Coachella Valley Colusa Delevan Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Ellicott Slough Farallon Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Hopper Mountain Humboldt Bay Imperial Kern Lower...
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    gardens, and many of its contents, to the state of California. A dedicatory plaque at the castle reads: "La Cuesta Encantada presented to the State of California...
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    Drake paused his journey the next day when anchoring his ship at the Farallon Islands where the crew hunted seal meat. Assertions that he left some of...
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    from Japanese Island (1868) Fort Tongass, Group of Indians (1868) South Farallon Island, Sea Lions in Main Top Bay (c. 1867–1872) Mosquito Fall (c. 1868–1873)...
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    blew the ship back south to the Baja peninsula, then as far north as the Farallon Islands. As the ship heaved against heavy winds, Pérez, Serra and sailors...
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    John Sutter plaque at Sutter's Fort...
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    tribute to his memory in Muir Woods' Cathedral Grove, where a dedication plaque was placed in his honor. The monument was listed on the National Register...
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    including a plaque and three rose bushes, dedicated on the one year anniversary of the attacks. The California Civil War Veterans plaque, located at the...
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  • Coachella Valley Colusa Delevan Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Ellicott Slough Farallon Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Hopper Mountain Humboldt Bay Imperial Kern Lower...
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  • the transuranium elements."  • The USS Independence is scuttled near the Farallon Islands, after being used as a target for the Operation Crossroads nuclear...
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  • landmark, not the municipality that is currently there by the same name. The plaque identifying the designation is in front of the home of the town's first...
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    today's Moss Beach. Looking into the Pacific Ocean, they could see the Farallon Islands due west – and Drakes Bay curving broadly to Point Reyes across...
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    addition to the local Richmond Shipyards, shipworker's bootprints with plaques set in the sidewalks and long low seating walls point visitors to the other...
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    the main beach is a nude beach on private property. A stone marker with a plaque (now missing) commemorates the three days Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà's...
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    Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park with the Old Santa Susana Stage Road (in red). The star marks the historic plaque for the stage road....
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    bronze plaque which reads, "Fort Humboldt. Occupied by U.S. troops from 1853 to 1865 [sic]. General U. S. Grant was stationed here in 1853." The plaque is...
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  • reduction through the Mills Act. Owners have the option to install their own plaque or marker at the resource site National Register of Historic Places List...
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    and the Portuguese ambassador to the United States presented a bronze plaque, honoring Cabrillo as a "distinguished Portuguese navigator in the service...
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    The Bank of Italy Building National Historic Landmark plaque....
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